#fortune

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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.


Ausonius


#favors #fortune #she #you

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.


Jane Austen


#deserve #fortune #large #many #men

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.


J. Paul Getty


#anything #better #comes #doing #economically

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.


James Russell Lowell


#cheer #come #good #good cheer #hardest

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.


Stewart O'Nan


#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

I hated the fake world of celebrities, especially those my age. The media plays them up in sparkles and happiness to make it more appealing so they can exploit you. At least that’s what my naïve self thought of the entertainment world then.


Tiffany Fulton


#actresses #celebrities #fame-and-fortune #age

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.


Marilyn French


#fortune #good #good fortune #good sense #many

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.


Jindřich Štyrský


#misfortune #vice #death

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.


Solon


#misfortune #equality

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.


Christine de Pizan


#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life