Fortune Quotes
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
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Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.
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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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The only hard step in building up my fortune was the first thousand dollars. After that it was easy.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
