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Fortune quotes (24) It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Fortune Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Fortune We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Jean Jacques Rousseau Category: Fortune The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad Bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi Category: Fortune Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not Francis Bacon Category: Fortune It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen Category: Fortune Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd. William Shakespeare Category: Fortune A great fortune is a great slavery. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Fortune Read the tea leaves. Proverb Category: Fortune Fortune gives too much to many enough to none. Martial Category: Fortune The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly and who can say to himself I shall to-day be uppermost. Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Fortune I am not now in fortunes power: He that is down can fall no lower. Samuel Butler Category: Fortune Luck is not chance Its toil Fortunes expensive smile Is earned. Emily Dickinson Category: Fortune Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. Mark Twain Category: Fortune Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Fortune The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Fortune Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave James Russell Lowell Category: Fortune Only learn to seize good fortune for good fortune is always here. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Fortune It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events Because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by Prudence. John Dryden Category: Fortune Depend not on fortune but on conduct. Publilius Syrus Category: Fortune There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Fortune He that waits upon Fortune is never sure of a Dinner. Benjamin Franklin Category: Fortune Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. O. Henry Category: Fortune In omni adversitate fortunæ infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. Boethius Category: Fortune |
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