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Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.
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Et quant ma maladieGarieNe sera nullementSans vous, douce anemie,Qui lieEstes de mon tourment,A jointes mains deprieVo cuer, puis qu'il m'oublie,Que temprement m'ocie,Car trop langui longuement.Douce dame jolie,Pour dieu ne penses mieQue nulle ait signourieSeur moy fors vous seulement.

guillaume de machaut

— And since my maladyWill not beCured at allWithout you, sweet enemy.Who are gladAt my torment.With folded hands I prayTo your heart, since it forgets me.That it should kill me quickly.For I languish too long.Sweet pretty lady.For God's sake do not thinkThat any one has authorityOver me but you alone.
— "Douce dame jolie", line 33; translation by Jennifer Garnham. [1]

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Prince, je congnois tout en somme,Je congnois coulourez et blesmes,Je congnois Mort qui tout consomme,Je congnois tout, fors que moy mesmes.

françois villon

— Prince, I know all, in short,I know pink cheeks from wan,I know Death all-devouring,I know all, save myself.
— "Ballade des Menus Propos (Ballade of Small Talk)", line 25. (1458).

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Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.


— How does it happen, Mæcenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
— Horace, Satires, I. 1. 1.

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Sic quae permissis fluitare uidetur habenis fors patitur frenos ipsaque lege meat.


— Book V, section 2, lines 21-4

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His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for’s power to thunder.


— Menenius, scene i

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fors et virtus miscentur in unum.

virgil

— Chance joins with force to guide the steel.
Line 714 (translated by John Conington).

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fors juvat audentes.


— Fortune favors the brave.
— Claudianus, Epistles, IV. 9. Cicero—De Finibus, Book III. Div. 4. Stobæus—Floril. Tit, XXX, p. 135. Sophocles, Deperditorum Dramatum, Fragmenta.

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fors æqua merentes<br.Respicit.

statius

— A just fortune awaits the deserving.
— Statius, Thebais, I. 661.

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fors et virtus miscentur in unum.


— Chance joins with force to guide the steel.
— Line 714 (translated by John Conington).

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