top of page
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian

"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

Standard 
 Customized
"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

Exlpore more Fortune quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Fortune befriends the bold."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

Explore more quotes by Baltasar Gracian

Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
Quote_1.png
Baltasar Gracian
"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
bottom of page