My quote store | Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.