“Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
Seems most unrestrained to flow,
Chance herself is reined and bitted,
And the curb of law doth know.”

—  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Poem I, lines 11-12; translation by H. R. James
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book V

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