We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
I do have to say I have been very fortunate.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
I'm very fortunate, and I know that.
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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