We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
There are people who wish to make human life harder for no other reason than to be able afterwards to offer men their life-alleviating recipes their Christianity, for example.
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The trodden worm turns itself. That is sagacious. It thereby lessens the probability of being again trodden on. In the language of morality: submissiveness.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
The Deniers of Chance. No conqueror believes in chance.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Only a fool leaves anything of importance to chance.
