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 By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
 [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]  
 By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
 [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.] 
 For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather 
show us to be what we are.  
 For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather 
show us to be what we are. 
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
 And breasts the blows of circumstance.  
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
 And breasts the blows of circumstance. 
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
 The changeful change of circumstances.
 [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]  
 The changeful change of circumstances.
 [Lat., Varia sors rerum.] 
 Men are the sport of circumstances, when
 The circumstances seem the sport of men.  
 Men are the sport of circumstances, when
 The circumstances seem the sport of men. 
 And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself 
to circumstances.
 [Lat., Et mihi res, non read more 
 And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself 
to circumstances.
 [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.] 
 Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
 Bliss is the same in subject or in king.  
 Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
 Bliss is the same in subject or in king. 
 Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not 
to the power of God, but to the read more 
 Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not 
to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.