Fortune Quotes - Page 26

• Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, Men, Understanding

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• It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Party, Mean

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1866). “The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred”

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• Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Feelings, Patriotism

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Youth, Young

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.4

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• 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.

  Horace

  Arms, Study, Virtue

  Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.233

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• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

  Horace

  Names, Desire, Imperfect

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• In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
  [Lat., Horae
  Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

  Horace

  Victory, Moments, Joyful

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• Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
  [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

  Horace

  Money, Use, Ifs

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• Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
  [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
  Fortuna non mutat genus.]

  Horace

  Money, Proud, Birth

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• Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

  Horace

  Games, Tasks, Shifting

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• I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Cheerfulness

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.233, 谷月社

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• Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day.
  [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag,
  Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Men, Pieces

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• It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Play, Might

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
  [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Suits, Blind, Inconsiderate

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• Fortune and love favour the brave.
  [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

  Ovid

  Bravery, And Love, Favour

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• The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
  [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

  Ovid

  Friends, Crowds

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• Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.292

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• Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine,
  Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine.
  Better be born with taste to little rent
  Than the dull monarch of a continent;
  Without this bounty which the gods bestow,
  Can Fortune make one favorite happy?
  No.

  John Armstrong

  Dull, Littles, Taste

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.89

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• I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

  Washington Irving

  Endurance, Fortitude, Overwhelming

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

  Boethius

  Fate, Acceptance, Looks

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

  William Shenstone

  Heart, Contentment, May

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

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• Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

  John Dryden

  Waiting, Cheerfulness

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.249

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• 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.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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