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- Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and…
- The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
- When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it…
- Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all…
- Fortune and humor govern the world.
- Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
- We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent…
- It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
- What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how…
- It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
- Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
- Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
- Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
- The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
- To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
- However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
- Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
- It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
- People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the…
- Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us…
- Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
- The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the…
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