Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light…

— Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving…

— Francis Bacon Sr

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they…

— Plutarch

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars,…

— Francis Bacon

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

— Euripides

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

— Euripides

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

— Thomas Browne

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

— Boethius

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

— Epictetus

Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable