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Herodotus

"The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless."

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"The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless."

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

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

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

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

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"Fortune befriends the bold."

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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."

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

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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."

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"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."

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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

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