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Luck must be dealt with like health: enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad.
François de La Rochefoucauld
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Moralist
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678), Maxim 392.

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François de La Rochefoucauld
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