Fortune

“Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
Finds in adversity the seed of praise.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“Cease to ask what the morrow will hold and count as gain each day that Fortune grants.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

“The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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