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

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 bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

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 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 folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.