Fortune Quotes
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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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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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
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Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.
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Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
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That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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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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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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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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I don't know the reason for that particular band's fortune or lack of it. But, in our case, I think it's the music that we make and made is timeless. It may remind you of the time you heard it.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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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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India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
