#fortune

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

— Ausonius

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

— Jane Austen

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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

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#anyone #door #fortune #rarely

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#himself #misfortune #right #sorry #strikes

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#am #any #ashamed #bashfulness #birth

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock. ↗

— Roman Payne

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Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#purity #home

I am even The natural fool of fortune. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fortune #king-lear #william-shakespeare #nature

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate? ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#fate #fortune #life #death