Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one… — John Jay Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then… — Drew Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]” — Marcus Valerius Martialis Copy Share Image
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society,… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist,… — William H. Gates, Sr Copy Share Image
