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Posted on Compuserve, (1997) http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-3559.
“Making a virtue of necessity.”
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III, 86
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Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
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“Not even the gods fight against necessity.”
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Quoted by Plato in the dialogue Protagoras, 345d http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0177%3Atext%3DProt.%3Asection%3D345d (Simonides Fr. 37.1.27 ff.). <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">The gods do not fight against necessity. <br class="br">Not even the gods war against necessity. <br class="br">I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
316.
Aes Triplex (1878)
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“Necessity makes a joke of civilization.”
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