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"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.""
Marcus Aurelius
"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.""
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"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
Horace
"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
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"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
Horace
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
James Russell Lowell
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
Robert Welch
"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
Lord Byron
"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
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"Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold."
Eric Butterworth
"Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold."
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"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."
Thomas Carlyle
"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."
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"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."
James Weldon Johnson
"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."
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"A great fortune is a great slavery."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A great fortune is a great slavery."
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"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
Joseph Addison
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
Thomas Carlyle
"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
Titus Livius
"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
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"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."
Patty Duke
"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."
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"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."
Johann Georg Zimmermann
"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."
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"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
Robert Southwell
"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
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"Fortune befriends the bold."
Emily Dickinson
"Fortune befriends the bold."
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"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
John Mortimer
"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
George Bernard Shaw
"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
Toba Beta
"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
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"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."
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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
Virgil
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune."
Mary Wortley Montagu
"No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
Hermann Hesse
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night."
Nenia Campbell
"I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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"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."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"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."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
Maria Edgeworth
"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
Auliq Ice
"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
Francis Bacon
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
Toba Beta
"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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