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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."

"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."

"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."

"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."

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

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."

"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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