“Not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half.” The Prince
I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn't disturb me. Book VI
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. The Post Office Girl
No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom. Beware of Pity
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