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Seneca the Younger on Saint Patrick's Day

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The shifting hour flies with doubtful wings; nor does swift Fortune keep faith with anyone.

Fortune is gentle to the lowly, and heaven strikes the humble with a light hand.

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

O Fortune, that enviest the brave, what unequal rewards thou bestowest on the righteous!

Fortune cannot take away what she did not give.

Fortune turns on her wheel the fate of kings.

Your good fortune is not to need good fortune.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught.

We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given.

Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm

No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.

Unrighteous fortune seldom spares the highest worth; no one with safety can long front so frequent perils. Whom calamity oft passes by she finds at last.

Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Attribution

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