Fortune Quotes
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.
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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
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Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.
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We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
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I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
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Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
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My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
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Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
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To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
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When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.
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We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
