As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 79.
“Thou wast indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendour of thy life, but in the opportune moment of thy death.”
Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis.
http://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitus-agricola-12.php
Source: Agricola (98), Chapter 45
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
The Infernal Marriage, part 3 (1834).
Books
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.”
Philip Pullman book Northern Lights
Source: The Golden Compass
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
16 September 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/24608868849 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech in the House of Commons (24 November 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103146 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: The word “equality” is often used, but, wisely, rarely defined. The moment one tries to define it, one gets into great difficulty. For example, it cannot mean equality of incomes or earnings; otherwise, we would not need more than one union. Indeed, we would not need one union. If we are to have opportunity, we cannot have equality, because the two are opposite. We may have equality of opportunity, but if the only opportunity is to be equal, it is not opportunity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
