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Each is the architect of his good fortune.

— Mathurin Régnier

Chacun est artisan de sa bonne fortune.

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Cf. Appius Claudius Cæcus, Faber est suæ quisque fortunæ.—"Each man is the architect of his own fortunes." | W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 750

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