#fortune

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. ↗

— Anita Baker

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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. ↗

— John Barrow

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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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