Musophilus (1599), Stanza 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.”
“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
As quoted in While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (2009) by Heidi Schlumpf, p. 37
“There are three things you do only once in your life: born, die and voting on PT!”
Original: (pt) Existem três coisas que você só faz uma vez na vida: nascer, morrer e votar no PT!
“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”
Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir.
Quoted in "Diálogos de un caricaturista salvaje," interview with Luis Bagaría, El Sol, Madrid (1936-06-10)
“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
Hays translation
At dawn of day, when you dislike being called, have this thought ready: "I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?(Farquharson translation)
Ὄρθρου, ὅταν δυσόκνως ἐξεγείρῃ, πρόχειρον ἔστω ὅτι ἐπὶ ἀνθρώπου ἔργον ἐγείρομαι· ἔτι οὖν δυσκολαίνω, εἰ πορεύομαι ἐπὶ τὸ ποιεῖν ὧν ἕνεκεν γέγονα καὶ ὧν χάριν προῆγμαι εἰς τὸν κόσμον; ἢ ἐπὶ τοῦτο κατεσκεύασμαι, ἵνα κατακείμενος ἐν στρωματίοις ἐμαυτὸν θάλπω;
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Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
