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Fortune Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of…
- A great fortune is a great slavery.
- Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal…
- Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
- Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
- Fortune can take away riches, but not courage....
- Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of…
- Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
- Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
- Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
- Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its…
- Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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