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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

  Martial

  Giving, Too Much, Enough

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• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

  Patty Duke

  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Wife, Virtue

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• A great mind becomes a great fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Mind, Great Minds

  "De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Fate

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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Criminals

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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  Wilson Mizner

  Ambition, Men, People

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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• Cease to ask what the morrow
  will bring forth,
  and set down as gain
  each day that fortune grants.

  Horace

  Happiness, Each Day, Gains

  Horace (1927). “The Odes and Epodes”

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• Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wheels, Stills, Highest

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.20

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• The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Mean, Men, One Man

  Song: World on Fire, Album: Afterglow, 2003

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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid

  Fear, Blessing, Stealing

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• If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Mistake, Justice, Taste

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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  Martial

  Giving, Too Much, Wealth

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.549

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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake

  God, Kissing, Luck

  William Blake (1979). “Complete writings: with variant readings”

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• I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

  Wilson Mizner

  Lawyer, Contact, Convinced

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• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  Livy

  Brave, Helping, Results

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 29,

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• If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Agency, Worry

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  A. A. Milne

  Fear, Action

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