Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on

Zeno of Citium (334 BCE-262 BCE), Zeno of Citium; was a Hellenistic philosopher of Phoenician origin from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.