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So slight a thing is fortune when compared with human nature; for she cannot satisfy its desires, since all that extent of empire and magnitude of wide-stretching domain could not suffice for two men. They had heard and read that the gods1
‘divided the universe into three parts, and each got his share of power,’ and yet they did not think the Roman dominion enough for themselves, who were but two.
1 Zeus, Poseidon, and Pluto; Iliad, xv. 189.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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