#fortune

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. ↗

— Tecumseh

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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. ↗

— William Penn

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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ↗

— Plautus

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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ↗

— Plutarch

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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ↗

— Quintilian

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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. ↗

— John Ray

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