We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
220Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.[121]
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose[122] our ventures.[123]
Cassius.