"A aucuns les biens viennent en dormant."
— Louis XI

January 1, 1970

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Good fortune comes to some people while they are asleep (i.e., without their seeking it). — Proverb traditionally connected with Louis XI, cited in Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 1