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Updated: May 25, 2025

But among the other things in which he confirms the power of fate, he thinks as the most-approved philosophers have thought after him, Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus, that not all things happen by fate, but some things are in the power of men, the choice of whom is free. The same man in a way acts as he desires and falls into what he does not desire.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Now the boys had, for some time, fancied that they were very expert in the use of the lasso; and, upon seeing this ox, became seized with the insane desire to capture him with that weapon, after the most-approved style of the Mexican lazador. Remonstrance was in vain.

Samuel Woodworth Cozzens - The Young Trail Hunters : Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West