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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.


Honore de Balzac


#becomes #business #capital #deliberately #fortune

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.


Lucius Accius


#fame #his #indeed #makes #man

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.


Lord Acton


#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man

I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.


Shaun Alexander


#bowl #clinton #end #fame #fortune

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.


Aristotle


#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.


Aristotle


#misfortune #really #shows #those #who

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."


Marcus Aurelius


#bear #bitter #fortune #future #good

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.


Francis Bacon


#blind #fortune #invisible #look #man

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.


Lionel Barrymore


#along #appeal #because #century #come

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?


P.G. Wodehouse


#misfortune #sombre-mood #humor






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