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[balancingminds]

OOM: Peaceful wealth, or painful toil,
Chance of war, or civil broil,
'Tis not for man's feeble race
These to shun, or those embrace.
But that all-disposing Fate
Which presides o'er mortal state,
Where it listeth, casts its shroud
Of impenetrable cloud.

The Cloud of Fate by: Bacchylides (5th century B.C.)
translated by John Herman Merivale

(OOC: Warning for references to war in the second link.)