#fortune

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. ↗

— Sophocles

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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #faring #forget #how #misfortunes

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #fortune #greater #greater evil #men

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#family #fortune #good #good fortune #had

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#large #regretted #thing

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #clear #continent #contributions

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#himself #misfortune #right #sorry #strikes

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#am #any #ashamed #bashfulness #birth

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age