Amor fati. Marcus Aurelius 4.34
Fatum
decrevit amandum dominus Romanorum. Choose
to embrace the fate that the universe gives you. Even the gods cannot
escape it, and if you bear it well, it will bear you to glory.
Ἑκὼν
σεαυτὸν τῇ Κλωθοῖ συνεπιδίδου παρέχων
συννῆσαι οἷστισί ποτε πράγμασι βούλεται.
Surrender
yourself willingly to Clotho (†), allowing her to weave the thread
of your life among whatever circumstances she will.
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(†)
One of the three female Fates (Μοῖραι, Parcae) who
together spin (Clotho, Nona), measure (Lachesis, Decima), and cut
(Atropos, Morta) the thread of mortal life in ancient Mediterranean
mythology. Hesiod makes them alternately daughters of gloomy Night
(Theogony 211-25), or
of Zeus and Themis (Theogony 901-6).
Plato depicts them singing round the throne of their mother
Necessity, who turns the spindle of the world on her knees as they
sing a siren song—Clotho of what is, Lachesis of what was, and
Atropos of what is to come (Republic 10,
617d).