Comments on: The limits to a sense of destiny? http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/28/the-limits-to-a-sense-of-destiny/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/28/the-limits-to-a-sense-of-destiny/#comment-302254 gs Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:19:54 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/28/the-limits-to-a-sense-of-destiny/#comment-302254 <i>In some ways Benazir Bhutto’s acute personal sense of destiny appears to have contributed to her death. In numerous situations, she courted danger in a dangerous land, and survived...(p)What a waste of recklessness that might otherwise have been useful. One possible moral to the story is this: even if you have a well developed sense of your own destiny, perhaps you shouldn’t bet the house on it.</i> Maybe to her the reward was worth the risk. <i>Aut Caesar aut nihil</i> (Caesar or nothing) was the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TPENAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA19&lpg=RA1-PA19&dq=aut+caesar+aut+nihil+quotation&source=web&ots=y-575QGDsk&sig=Fe4Skt7u_OoWeiC3D2z8laqnt20" rel="nofollow">motto</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia" rel="nofollow">Cesare Borgia</a>. In some ways Benazir Bhutto’s acute personal sense of destiny appears to have contributed to her death. In numerous situations, she courted danger in a dangerous land, and survived…(p)What a waste of recklessness that might otherwise have been useful. One possible moral to the story is this: even if you have a well developed sense of your own destiny, perhaps you shouldn’t bet the house on it.

Maybe to her the reward was worth the risk. Aut Caesar aut nihil (Caesar or nothing) was the motto of Cesare Borgia.

]]>