"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."

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"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."

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"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy."

Terence, Roman Writer

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"Trusting fate, especial to resolve anything is a pure gamble."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."

Donald Trump, American Businessman

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"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine."

Carlton Fisk, American Athlete

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"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world."

Max Weber, German Economist

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"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

John Dryden, English Poet

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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."

Body

"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."

Drink

"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved."

Choice

"The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others."

Doctors

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."

Will

"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."

Taste

"The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects."

Man

"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."

First

"I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power."

Power

"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."

Character