Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.
“I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.”
“By purple death I'm seized and fate supreme.”
Source: General sources, Lines from Homer's Iliad which Julian recited upon his elevation to Caesar by Constantius II, as recorded by Ammianus Marcellinus in book XV of his history; such elevations had often proven fatal to others.
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”
Source: Written on the Body
“Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.”
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 259 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986).
Speech at The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (December 1926) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/SEP26.html
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
"Ice Agents Prefer Deporting Illegals To Changing Their Diapers" http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/02/ice-agents-like-deporting-illegals-better-than-changing-their-diapers/ The Daily Caller, March 3, 2017
2010s, 2017
“War had a way of making carpe diem seem valid no matter what you wanted to seize…”
Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 17
pg 199-200
The Raven Cycle Series, Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014)
