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None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

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The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.