Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

— Euripides

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 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

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

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

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

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

— Aristotle

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

— Epictetus

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau