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| A great mind becomes a great fortune. |
| by Seneca |
| 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. |
| by Saadi |
| Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. |
| by Seneca |
| The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. |
| by I Ching |
| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. |
| by Anacharsis |
| The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. |
| by Jean B. Molière |
| The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. |
| by William Penn |
| Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. |
| by Seneca |
| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. |
| by Sallust |
| A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune. |
| by Jean La Bruyere |
| Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. |
| by Seneca |
| The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. |
| by Akhenaton |
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