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Verily, the guide and teacher of this path [of rebellion against, a reigning father] is Your Majesty ; others are merely following your footsteps. How can the path which Your Majesty chose to follow can be called 'the path of ill-luck'? My fathered bartered away the garden of Eden for two grains of wheat; I shall be an unworthy son if I do not sell it for a grain of barley!
Aurangzeb
Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.
Pliny the Younger