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A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
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A fortunate shepherd is nursed in a rude cradle in some wild forest, and, if fortune smile, has risen to empire. That other, swathed in purple by the throne, has at last, if fortune frown, gone to feed the herd.
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A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels.
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
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A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]
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A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
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Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught. [Lat., Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus Fortuna parcit. Nemo se tuto diu Periculis offerre tam crebis potest, Quem saepe transit casus aliquando invenit.]
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Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
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Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and;you don”t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold
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All other doubts, by time let them be cleared; Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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All our advantages are those of fortune; birth, wealth, health, beauty, are her accidents; and when we cry out against fate, it were well we should remember fortune can take naught save what she gave.
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune’s wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.]
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As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
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As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if times become cloudy you will be alone. [Lat., Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris.]
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
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By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune (Now, my dear lady) hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.
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