Quotes
Quotes about Fortune
Fortune helps the brave.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything.
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
