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Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.


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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.



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There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.





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