But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
One faces the future with one's past.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.