Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ And this Volubility of Human Affaires, what is it, bur either the Sport, or the Judgment of Providence, in the Punishment of Arrogance and Oppression! We are given finally to Understand, that as the Levity of Fortune leaves us Nothing to Trust to, or to Presume upon, so at the same Time there's Nothing to Despair of. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ A Wife, and a Generous Enemy will make a Modest Use of a Victory; for Fortune is Variable. REFLEXION. This Combat of Two Cocks for a Dunghill, may be Moraliz’d by an Application of it to the Competition of the Greatest Princes, for Empire and Dominion. For what’s the World more then a Mass of Dirt on the One hand, as to the Subect of the Quarrell; and there's the same Thirst of Blood too, betwixt the Combatants, on the Other. ”
