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Quotations by Subject: Fortune
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
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J. S. Bryan
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
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Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
Fortune helps the brave.
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Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Phormio
Fortune favors the brave.
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Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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