Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck. (Pliny the Younger)

Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.

Pliny the Younger

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