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Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy  (Fortune Quotes) A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light  (Fortune Quotes) Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage  (Fortune Quotes) Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day  (Fortune Quotes) If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success  (Fortune Quotes) Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us  (Fortune Quotes) The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm  (Fortune Quotes) 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  (Fortune Quotes) Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune  (Fortune Quotes) It cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce much to fortune’s favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands  (Fortune Quotes) That reproach of modern times, that gulf of time and fortune, the passion for gaming, which is so often the refuge of the idle sons of pleasure and often, alas! The last resource of the ruined  (Fortune Quotes) Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours  (Fortune Quotes) Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty  (Fortune Quotes) Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure  (Fortune Quotes) Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause  (Fortune Quotes) Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts  (Fortune Quotes) There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune  (Fortune Quotes) The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly  (Fortune Quotes) This is the charm, by sages often told, converting all it touches into gold: Content can soothe, where’er by fortune placed, can rear a garden in the desert waste  (Fortune Quotes) The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens  (Fortune Quotes) To worthiest things, virtue, art, beauty, fortune, now I see, rareness of use, not nature value brings  (Fortune Quotes) In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own  (Fortune Quotes) Golden palaces break man’s rest, and purple robes cause watchful nights. Oh, if the breasts of the rich could be seen into, what terrors high fortune places within!  (Fortune Quotes) Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man  (Fortune Quotes) Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate  (Fortune Quotes) Union does every thing when it is perfect; it satisfies desires, it simplifies needs, it foresees the wishes of the imagination; it is an aisle always open, and becomes a constant fortune  (Fortune Quotes) The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost?  (Fortune Quotes) Extremes of fortune are true wisdom’s test, and he’s of men most wise who bears them best  (Fortune Quotes) Envy sets the stronger seal on desert; if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched  (Fortune Quotes) He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue  (Fortune Quotes)
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