6 Forever will they come to the two buttings; these will rise from the sepulchre 57 with closed fist, and these with shorn hair. Ill-giving and ill-keeping have taken from them the beautiful world, and set them to this scuffle; 60 what that is, I adorn not words for it. Now, son, thou canst see the brief jest of the goods that are committed to Fortune, 63 for which the human race struggle with each other; for all the gold that is beneath the moon, or that ever was, of these weary souls 66 could not make a single one repose.” “Master,” said I to him, “now tell me further, this Fortune, on which thou touchest to me, what 69 is it, which has the goods of the world so in its clutches?” And he to me: “O foolish creatures, how great is that ignorance which harms you! 72 I would have thee now receive my opinion concerning her. He whose wisdom transcends all, made the heavens, and gave them their guides, 75 so that every part shines on every part, distributing equally the light. In like wise for the splendors of the world, 78 He ordained a general ministress and guide, who should from time to time transfer the vain goods from race to race, and from one blood to another, 81 beyond the resistance of human wit.
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