See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

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There is tragic wisdom and celestial fire in the words of Giordano Bruno, when he declared: “See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.” These words rise not from the mind of a mere philosopher, but from the heart of a man who had seen the frailty of human ambition and the treachery of Fortune herself. Bruno, the heretic dreamer who dared to speak of infinite worlds and divine unity, knew that all things entrusted to Fortune — wealth, fame, power, even safety — are but fragile illusions. He warns us that she is not a guardian, but a deceiver; not a giver of blessings, but a test of the soul’s attachment to them.

Born in sixteenth-century Italy, Giordano Bruno lived in an age of both awakening and peril

Giordano Bruno

Italian - Philosopher 1548 - February 17, 1600

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