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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 637
AUTHOR: Herodotus (484?–425? B.C.)
QUOTATION: Men’s 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