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But the accidents of fortune are many and vary in degree of magnitude; and although small
pieces of good luck, as also of misfortune, clearly do not change the whole course of
life, yet great and repeated successes will render life more blissful, since both of their
own nature they help to embellish it, and also they can be nobly and virtuously
utilized1;
while great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause
and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity
nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience,
not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.
1 This distinction of the two values of good fortune recalls the two classes of external goods defined in 8.15,16 and 9.7.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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