But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raises to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin (1894)
For to like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship. Bellum Catilinae (-44)