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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
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Personal Development
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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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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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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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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"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more."
Learning
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
Optimism
"He who hath many friends hath none."
Friendship
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Desire
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Wisdom
"Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold."
Power
"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
Philosophy
"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
Wisdom
"The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us."
Happiness
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