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O my good fortune, please subdue the anguish of your Soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

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No trust in Fortune's favour should'st thou feel, When least expected, lo! she whirls her wheel. (tr. H. H. Wilson, 1814)

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