A traveler, tired with a long journey, lay down on the very brink of a deep well. Being within an inch of falling into the water, Dame Fortune, it is said, appeared to him, and waking him from his sleep, this said to him, “Good Sir, please wake up; for had you fallen into the well, the blame will be thrown at me, and I shall get an ill name among mortals; for I find that man are sure to think I am the cause of their calamities, however much by their own folly they have really brought upon themselves.”
Every is, less or more, the master of his own fortune.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
– Appius Claudius
