Advice of sages for the ages... a note for conspirators

“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
― Sophocles, Ajax  
 
“Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket 

“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre  

“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
― Bryce Courtenay 

“I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.”
― Jennifer Salaiz 

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha  

“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves 

“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
― Goldie Hawn 


“في هذه الحياة التي نعيشها لم يجعل الله مصائرنا في أيدي الآخرين، ولكنه منحنا ضعفا كافيا لنسلّم مصائرنا لهم”
― محمد حسن علوان

"In this life we live God did not make our fates in the hands of others, but it gave us vulnerable enough to recognize our destinies them."
- Mohammed Hassan Alwan

“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!  

“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Despereaux = Tale of Despereaux  

“A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore 

  “Life calls the tune, we dance.”
― John Galsworthy

And there are oh so many more...
Unfortunately, those who should reflect on these either can't turn on a computer, can't read, have neither the ambition nor inclination to do either, or simply couldn't understand the implications to their own lives if they did.