“Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
Maxim 274
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“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
Maxim 280
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“It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.”
Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
Maxim 282
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“His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.”
Maxim 283
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“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”
Maxim 275
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“Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”
Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
Maxim 911; one of the most famous renditions of the ancient Greek proverb (which is anonymous and dates to the 5th century BCE or earlier). The provenance of the proverb and its English versions is at Wikiquote's Euripides page, under the heading "Misattributed".
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“When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”
Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
Maxim 277
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