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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.