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 defines us by forcing us onto one road or another, and then punishes us for it.

Circumstances define us... they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. Ivan Turgenev

is that thing which evokes the wonders that all of us have hidden in our breasts.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. (Charles Dickens)

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

is ex-post-facto knowledge of a series of incidents, episodes and laws which, had we known before doing something that we should not have done anyhow, we would have done otherwise, in the same way, or not at all.

is the stage upon which chance plays its part. You can’t throw a seven holding one die.

Circumstance is the stage upon which chance plays its part. You can’t throw a seven holding one die.

Let the circumstances take care of themselves.

is the ruler of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

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