Fortune Quote by Boethius

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

— Boethius

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of…

— Seneca the Younger

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

— Arthur Helps

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom…

— Benjamin Franklin

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

— Herodotus

“The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.”

— Boethius

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

— Rachel Field

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but…

— Euripides

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is…

— Solon

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

— Seneca the Younger

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

— Solon

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

— Robert A. Heinlein