| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 637 |
| AUTHOR: | Herodotus (484?425? B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HERODOTUS, Herodotus, trans. A. D. Godley, vol. 1, book 1, section 207, p. 261 (1931). |
| SUBJECTS: | Fortune |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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