Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they’ve been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn’t just an opportunity, it’s their due.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

No one deserves good or evil fortune,” said Lady Beatrice. “Things simply happen and one survives them the best one can.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation

I’ve taken my bows

And my curtain calls

You brought me fame and fortune

And everything that goes with it

I thank you all.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

To the young American, here or elsewhere, the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open; There is invitation in the air and success in all his wide horizon.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

I’m very fortunate to have the support of the people around me, I feel happy because my wife helps me and people who are close

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

My great friends are dead; I have no family, no clients, no fortune, nothing. So I can give myself totally to the Temple

Sympathy, love, fortune—we all have these qualities but still tend to not use them

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully.

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity

For in all adversity of fortune, the worst sort of misery is to have been happy

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.