“No man's more fortunate than he who's poor,
Since for the worse his fortune cannot change.”
Diphilus Athenian poet of New Comedy
Fragment 23
Fabulae Incertae
“Illusions are more common than changes in fortune”
— Franz Kafka, book The Castle
Source: The Castle
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