#fortune

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

#follow #fortunes #i #still

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democracy #exist #form #fortunes #great

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#been #best #clergyman #earnest #effect

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. ↗

— Loretta Young

#good #impossible #made #misfortune #posture

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. ↗

— Euripides

#gain #ignorance #misfortunes

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#become #contemporaries #fame #fortune #i