Fortuna

Chance, which rules perhaps half of our affairs, like a river in flood; the other half is left to us, and to what we build in fair weather.

From Niccolò Machiavelli.

In Symbols of the Psyche

• The Wheel: Turning time, fortune, and the round of birth and death.

More from Niccolò Machiavelli

Appearance and Reality · The Common Good · The Fox and the Lion · Necessità · Return to First Principles · Verità Effettuale · Virtù