Some prefer riches, some good health, some power, some public honors, and many even prefer sensual pleasures. These are fleeting and unstable things
Some prefer riches, some good health, some power, some public honors, and many even prefer sensual pleasures. These are fleeting and unstable things and dependent less upon human foresight than upon the fickleness of fortune. M. Tullius Cicero. Laelius on Friendship. Section 20.
Image: Roman triumphator from the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at the National Archaeological Museum of Palestrina courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Camelia Boban.
Image: Roman triumphator from the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at the National Archaeological Museum of Palestrina courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Camelia Boban.
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