Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

The sentiment expresses a stoic-sounding ethic: life moves in tides (“ebb and flow”), and the wisest response is to align oneself with what cannot be controlled. “Mastering fortune” here does not mean overpowering chance or fate, but gaining inner sovereignty by consenting to necessity—turning external unpredictability into an occasion for steadiness and resolve. Read this way, the line frames acceptance not as passivity but as a strategy for endurance: by meeting events without rebellion or denial, one preserves agency over one’s character and choices even when circumstances are adverse.