“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
“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Plutarch's Life of Cato
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