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“Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room for stains, not the stars.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
“Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“O, I am fortune's fool!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“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...” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny, the boy thought.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If you had won it, certainly you had. No, no; when fortune means to men most good, she looks upon them with a threat'ning eye.” William Shakespeare, King John
“Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“A thousand moral paintings I can show that shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's more pregnantly than words.” William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in...” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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