“Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.”
Bias of Priene (-600–-530 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the Seven Sages
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
“Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good.”
section 71 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039%3Asection%3D71 <br class="br">Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (44 BC)
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“Let good or ill befall,
It must be good for me,—
Secure of having Thee in all,
Of having all in Thee.”
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“I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"Sailing Ships", p. 162
Collected Poems (1933)
Context: While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride…
