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"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
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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 have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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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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"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
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"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."
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"Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes."
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"The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."
Man


"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own."
Man


"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
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"There are laws for peace as well as war."
Peace


"The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."
Freedom


"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
Intelligence


"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
Fortune


"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
History


"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."
Fortune


"Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment."
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