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Plutarch on Luck

b. 120 Greece

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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.

Fortune had so favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

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