Fortune Quotes
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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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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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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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All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
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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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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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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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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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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
