Fortune Quotes

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. (Honoré de Balzac)
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. View quote
Publilius Syrus
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Fortune favors the bold. View quote
Virgil
Fortune favors the brave. View quote
Terence
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. View quote
Seneca
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray. View quote
Publilius Syrus
All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life. View quote
Vitruvius
A great fortune is a great slavery. View quote
Seneca
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. (Livy)
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. View quote
Sallust
The result showed that fortune helps the brave. View quote
Livy
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. View quote
Cicero
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. View quote
Lucan
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. View quote
Petrarch
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. View quote
Laozi
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. View quote
Livy
Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs. View quote
Silius Italicus
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. View quote
Plutarch
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! (Petrarch)
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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