“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LIX: On Pleasure and Joy

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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

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“No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.”

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