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I am not unaware of that fact that many have held and still hold the view that the affairs of this world are so completely governed by fortune and by God that human prudence is incapable of correcting them [...]. So one may conclude that there is no point in trying too hard; one should simply let chance have its way. [...] Sometimes, thinking this matter over, I have been inclined to adopt a version of this view myself. Nevertheless, since our free will must not be eliminated, I think it may be true that fortune determines half our actions, but that, even so, she leaves us to control the other half, or thereabouts
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