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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
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59 BC
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17 AD
(aged 76)
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