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6. I shall presently discuss the means by which we
can gain the ability to win and hold the affections of
our fellow-men; but I must say a few words by way
of preface.
Who fails to comprehend the enormous, two-fold1
power of Fortune for weal and for woe? When we
enjoy her favouring breeze, we are wafted over to
the wished-for haven; when she blows against us,
we are dashed to destruction. Fortune herself,
then, does send those other less usual calamities,
arising, first, from inanimate Nature—hurricanes,
storms, shipwrecks, catastrophes, conflagrations;
second, from wild beasts—kicks, bites, and attacks.
But these, as I have said, are comparatively rare.
1 Co-operation vs. Fortune.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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