Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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