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Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud; Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm and cloud.
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We are carried up to the heaven by the circling wave, and immediately the wave subsiding, we descend to the lowest depths. [Lat., Tollimus in caelum curvato gurgite, et idem Subducta ad manes imos descendimus unda.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad.
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We read on the forehead of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that Fortune sells what she is thought to give. [Fr., Il lit au front de ceux qu’um vain luxe environne, Que la fortune vend ce qu’on croit qu’elle donne.]
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We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
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We treat fortune like a mistress–the more she yields, the more we demand.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. [Lat., Quidquid in altum, fortune tulit, ruitura levat.]
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When fortune favors a man too much, she makes him a fool. [Lat., Fortuna nimium quem favet, stultum facit.]
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When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.
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When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
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Whereas they have sacrificed to themselves, they become sacrificers to the inconstancy of fortune, whose wings they thought, by their self-wisdom, to have pinioned.
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Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind, Prepares a dreadful just for all mankind. And who stands safest? Tell me, is it he That spreads and swells in puff’d prosperity, Or bless’d with little, whose preventing care In peace provides fit arms against a war?
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Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
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Will fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach and no food– Such are the poor, in health–or else a feast And takes away the stomach–such are the rich, That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
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