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Since virtue is that power of the individual which intentionally guides him toward a desired end, the power which unintentionally drives him away from the desired end (namely fortuna) must be a contrary power; hence if one is a friend of virtue (redeeming grace as personified in Beatrice), he is no friend of
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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They talked about "fortuna" all the time and never forgot how surprising the world can be.
Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World 1993
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Romans must recognize the practical affairs, and that empire will be won and kept not by rearranging things according to an ideal, but by working with and through all those things which are called "fortuna".
felix hominum 2008
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As a Christian, Boethius could not suggest that she was an actual goddess, but he plays on this old tradition to talk about lowercase fortuna, “luck” or “chance,” as if it were a “she” and an actual force in the world.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Fortes fortuna iuvat in The Secrets of Vesuvius means 'Fortune favours the brave'
Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010
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As a Christian, Boethius could not suggest that she was an actual goddess, but he plays on this old tradition to talk about lowercase fortuna, “luck” or “chance,” as if it were a “she” and an actual force in the world.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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As a Christian, Boethius could not suggest that she was an actual goddess, but he plays on this old tradition to talk about lowercase fortuna, “luck” or “chance,” as if it were a “she” and an actual force in the world.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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As a Christian, Boethius could not suggest that she was an actual goddess, but he plays on this old tradition to talk about lowercase fortuna, “luck” or “chance,” as if it were a “she” and an actual force in the world.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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And maybe someday you will attempt to answer the question of the evolutionary construct of rape and murder but I wont hold my breath. adios y buena fortuna.
Child Abuse Alert 2009
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Wonder how that would look with the Latin translation of “Audentes fortuna iuvat”?
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