Depends Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

— Herodotus

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that…

— David Hume

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

— Francois Rabelais

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

— Sophocles

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

— Sophocles

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he…

— Frederick Douglass