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"It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence."

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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