« The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”
– Cléanthe
“Lead me on, O Zeus, and thou Destiny,
– Cléanthe
To wherever your decrees have assigned me.
I follow readily, but if I choose not,
Wretched though I am, I must follow still.
Fate guides the willing, but drags the unwilling.”
“Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.”
– Cléanthe
“He needs little who desires but little.”
– Cléanthe
“He has his wish, whose wish can be to have what is enough.”
– Cléanthe
“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.”
– Cléanthe
