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I have prevented you, Fortune; I have caught you, and cut off every access, so that you cannot possibly reach me.

— Metrodorus of Lampsacus

Occupavi te, Fortuna, atque cepi omnisque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me adspirare non posses.

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Attributed to Metrodorus by Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, V, IX, 27, as translated by W.H. Main, Tusculan Debates, Pickering, 1824, p. 237.

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