Posts tagged “fortune's wheel”

  1. Fortune's Wheel "I turn the whirling wheel and my circle spins. I am glad to change the lowest to the highest, and the highest to the lowest. Mount up if you will, provided you do so under this condition: that you will not maintain that I do you wrong though you descend down when the rules of my game require it." - Boethius, The Consolations of Philosophy, 523 AD "No mortal power may stay…

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