“O Fortune, like the variable moon, always you grow and you wane. » Carmina Burana (1220-1250).

 

“Fortune plays with people:

some go up, others go down,

She raises this one, lowers that one,

she places one above and the other below,

and to him whom she puts in the highest place,

to the wisest, to the most valiant,

she trips up one day or another. » Boethius, Philosophical Consolation.