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LIBER VII · CAPUT 42

REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF VICISSITUDES

REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF VICISSITUDES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
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Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Cetera exempla fortunae variantis innumera sunt. etenim quae facit magna gaudia nisi ex malis aut quae mala inmensa nisi ex ingentibus gaudiis?

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

As to examples of the vicissitudes of Fortune, they are innumerable. For what great pleasures has she ever given us, which have not taken their rise in misfortunes? And what extraordinary misfortunes have not taken their first rise in great pleasures?