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No Man Ever Wetted Clay And Then Left It, As If There Would Be Bricks By Chance And Fortune.
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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
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Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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This fortune intentionally left vague.
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....
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.
If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results....
In this fortune, the concluding three words 'were left out'.
It is Fortune, not wisdom that rules man's life.