554 Quotations with Fortune.
- 261. Niccolo Machiavelli: It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

- 262. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort: It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursu ...

- 263. Johann Friedrich von Schiller: It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness ...

- 264. Publius Cornelius Tacitus: It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

- 265. John Dryden: It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is ...

- 266. Publilius Syrus: It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

- 267. Francesco Petrarch: It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune be ...

- 268. Marcus Annaeus Seneca: It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

- 269. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in so ...

- 270. Sir Thomas Browne: It is we that are blind, not fortune.

- 271. Buddha: It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they ...

- 272. Ralph Waldo Emerson: It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great ...

- 273. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

- 274. Thomas McGuane: It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never kno ...

- 275. Robert Fulghum: It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and f ...

- 276. John P. Lippett: I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

- 277. James Weldon Johnson: Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cape of goo ...

- 278. John Ruskin: Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or t ...

- 279. James Russell Lowell: Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are th ...

- 280. George D. Boardman: Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, e ...

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