An idea from The Consolation of Philosophy

Is anything pure luck? A farmer digs and finds gold that another man buried, and nobody planned it. Chance, Philosophy says, is two chains of causes crossing where nobody meant them to cross.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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