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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
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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."
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
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