They... who await No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Arnold’s lines contrast passive dependence on “Chance” with an active, disciplined self-reliance. To “await / No gifts from Chance” is to refuse the consolations of luck, providence, or external rescue; it implies a stoic posture in which one’s moral and practical agency is the only secure resource. In that sense, “conquered Fate” does not mean abolishing necessity or suffering, but mastering one’s response to them—turning what looks like destiny into something met with preparedness and inner freedom. The aphoristic antithesis (Chance vs. Fate) sharpens the claim: the less one bargains with randomness, the less power “Fate” has to define one’s life.