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You can't prevent what you can't predict.

...you will open your hands and feel the sweat on your palms and perhaps you will remember that you were born without lifelines on your hand, without fortune, life, or love: you were born, you will be born with a smooth palm, but all you have to do is be born; after a few hours, that blank surface will be filled with signs, lines, portents. You will die with your dense lines worn out, but all you have to do is die for all trace of your destiny to disappear from your hands after a few hours. Chaos has no plural.

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject... Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

As Donald Trump`s fortunes continue to slide, he`s increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican`s weapon.

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Bear good fortune modestly.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.