-1- Brutus (in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar)

 

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

Do “the times AUTHOR the man”? … or, “does the man AUTHOR the times”?

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