Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Nothing in this world happens by chance

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

I'm a pretty strong believer that everything happens for a reason.

I'm a believer everything happens for a reason.

I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

I do believe that everything happens for a reason.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?

My motto in life has always been 'Everything happens for a reason.' No matter what, good or bad, there is a reason for it all.

Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

Things don't happen for no reason.

Everything has a cause.

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

I can see how everything relates to everything else when I think that nothing is merely coincidental. If everything that happens is inevitable, then the world is connected and whole.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

No acts are random or wasted.