"Occasio prima sui parte comosa, posteriore calva Quam si occupasis, teneas elapsum Non isse possit Jupiter reprehendre."
— Opportunity

January 1, 1970

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Phædrus, Book V. Fable 8. Same idea in Lucan, Pharsalia, Book I, line 513. Also in Rabelais, Gargantua, Book I, Chapter 37.