Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"One cannot regulate fortune to fit in with what one has decided one wants to happen."
- From a speech attributed to the Syracusan general, Hermocrates, in the History of the Peloponnesian War (Book VI, section 78) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972).
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