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To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Oresteia (-458)

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Seven Against Thebes (-467)

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Oresteia (-458)

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601)

O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

Horace Satires (-35)

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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