Fortune Quotes
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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
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Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
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I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
