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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.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

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

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

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.

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Fortune favors the prepared.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.