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  ...himself.--PLAUTUS.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.--POPE.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.--SHAKESPEARE.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.--SALLUST.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.--SAADI.
Fortune favors the bold.--CICERO.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.   --MOLIERE.
FREEDOM.--I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.--SWIFT.
There are two freedoms,--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.--CHARLES KINGSLEY.
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.--BOWLES.
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in...   Moliere

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