[N]othing given by fortune is stable, and all her gifts flow away more fleetingly than air. For fortune does not know how to be inactive; she enjoys substituting sorrow for happiness, or at least mixing the two. So, no one should be confident in times of success, nor give up in times of adversity. The changes of fortune alternate.
Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, Book III
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