#fortune

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. ↗

— Horace

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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#misfortune #parent #rashness #unhappy

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

#happy #makes #nobody #person #sees

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#bestow #common #common sense #destitute #favors

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ↗

— Elias Canetti

#disaster #even #every #eyes #into

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#comes #dark #days #either #everything