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Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.

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1, 40. | J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward (1882) p. 556

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