Tips of Ancient Wisdom - 13

Solvite, mortales, animos curasque levate
totque supervacuis vitam deplete querellis.
fata regunt orbem, certa stant omnia lege
longaque per certos signantur tempora casus.
nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

Let's clear your souls, mortals, 
let's alleviate your grief
May your lives be free of many useless laments
The Fate rules the world
everything is caused by precise laws
and the long ages are marked by events planned in advance
We die when we come into life
and the end depends on the beginning

M. Manilius, Astronomica, IV, 12-16