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Livy on Saint Patrick's Day

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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.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

He whom fortune has never deceived, rarely considers the uncertainty of human events.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune.

Rashness is not always fortunate.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Livy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.