« All Fortune Quotes · Alexis de Tocqueville's Page
Fortune Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a…
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
- In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is…
- What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily…
- What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.…
- No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and…
More Fortune Quotes
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. — Anita Baker
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac