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Fortune Quotes


"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""


"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."


"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."


"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."


"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."


"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."


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


"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."


"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."


"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."


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


"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."


"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."


"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."


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