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.
人生的事务也有潮汐:乘着涨潮前行,便能通向成功;一旦错过,一生的航程便困在浅滩与苦难之中。
— William Shakespeare · Julius Caesar · 4.3 —