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High Fortune Makes Both Our Virtues And Vices Stand Out As Objects That Are Brought Clearly To View By The Light.

It Takes More Strength Of Character To Withstand Good Fortune Than Bad.

Hope Is The Last Thing That Dies In Man.

The Contempt Of Riches In The Philosophers Was A Concealed Desire Of Revenging On Fortune The Injustice Done To Their Merit, By Despising The Good She Denied Them.

Those Who Give Too Much Attention To Trifling Things Become Generally Incapable Of Great Ones.