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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Sertoriu...
• Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Grea...
• When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!
  aid he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief....
• Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears.
  If a man is agitated in mind, And his thoughts go hither and thither, Only those friends On whom he fixes his conscious thoughts Will follow....
• Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all. -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle
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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Fortune...