Virgil - Fortune Quotes

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Now, whether fortune smiles or lowers,
One risk, one safety shall be ours.

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Ah too fortunate farmers, if they knew their own good fortune!

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An infant realm and fortune hard
Compel me thus my shores to guard.

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Th' immortal line in sure succession reigns;
The fortune of the family remains;
And grandsires' grandsires the long list contains.

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My chief, let Fate cry on or back,
'Tis ours to follow, nothing slack:
Whatever betide, he only cures
The stroke of Fortune who endures.

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O impotence of man's frail mind
To fate and to the future blind,
Presumptuous and o'erweening still
When Fortune follows at its will!

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Who knows what changeful fortune may produce?

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Time, toil, and circumstance full oft
A humbled cause have raised aloft,
And Fortune whom she mocked before
Has placed on solid ground once more.

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My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave,
And now I pass, a queenly shade,
Majestic to the grave.

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Nor can we struggle or resist;
Come, let us bow to Fortune's sway,
And, as she beckons, shape our way.

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But the race remains immortal, the fortune of the house stands firm for many years, and the grandfathers' grandfathers are numbered in the roll.

Of a community of bees

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