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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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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."


"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."


"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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