On Fate

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 4.40

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

— Seneca

Letters 23.9

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

— Seneca

Letters 107.11

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

— Epictetus

Enchiridion 8

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

— Epictetus

Fragments 30

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone.

— Epictetus

Discourses 1.14.14

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen.

— Epictetus

Enchiridion 8

He who accepts all that comes to him with calmness, realizing it is necessary and fated, lives as is fitting a wise man.

— Musonius Rufus

Fragments

Nothing stays as it is; all things are in flux.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Plutarch On Stoic Self-Contradictions

The end of virtue is to live consistently with nature.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.87