A Quote by Juvenal
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
[Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
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The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
[Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
[Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
[Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]
He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
[Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]
We are corrupted by good fortune.
[Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
No man has perpetual good fortune.
[Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
[Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Every man should stay within his own fortune.
[Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
Enough words, little wisdom.
[Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror
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