Advantage Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it,…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less…

— Louisa May Alcott

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well…

— Henry David Thoreau

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

— Margaret Fuller

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

— Seneca the Younger

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them…

— Michel de Montaigne

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

— Julia Quinn