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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."

"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break."

"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace."

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh."
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