Or:
O Fortuna! Velut Luna statu variabilis
Semper crescis aut decrescis
Vita detestabilis!
Nunc obdurat et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem
Egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem
Which in a free translation tells about how Fortune is as fickle as the moon: now increasing, then decreasing; melting power, but also poverty, like ice. You never know on which part of the wheel you are, down or up. When you're at the top, you can only go down and when you've reached the deepest depth of misery, you cling to the hope that the wheel must take you up again.
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