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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

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So do not fear this marriage with your mother;
Many a man has suffered this before—
But only in his dreams.


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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

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IOCLASTA: Nay, what should mortal[s] fear, for whom the degree of fortune are supreme, and who hath clear foresight of nothing? 'Tis best to live at random, as one may.

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Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

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Born: 497 BC
Died: 406 BC (aged 91)
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