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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.