An idea from The Consolation of Philosophy

Start with Fortune, Philosophy tells him. You’re angry that she changed. But changing is all she ever does, even while she was smiling at you. Asking her to stop makes no sense: “if it takes to standing still, it ceases to be the wheel of Fortune.”

From The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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