“It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.”

Though attributed to Tasso this is in fact from Goethe's Torquato Tasso, Act II, scene iii, line 115. In the original German: Das Glück erhebe billig der Beglückte!
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Italian poet 1544–1595

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