It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
PlutarchWickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
PlutarchFortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
PlutarchThe most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
PlutarchThis excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."
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