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Fortune Quotes by Boethius
- He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to…
- One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
- All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
- For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
- In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of…
- No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
- For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
More Fortune Quotes
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
- We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon