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“Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epicurus. xxvii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 43c06f508979d4385efc62484d7c6727a1f8af424ac69a90da07ecfc3bbd604b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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