Books Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Boethius

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

— Edward Gibbon

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods,…

— Marcus Aurelius

I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Again, of two who act cautiously, you shall find that one attains his end, the other not, and that two of different temperament, the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of…

— Seneca the Younger

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and…

— Joseph Chamberlain

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human…

— Bertrand Russell

I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you…

— Dean Koontz

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital…

— B. C. Forbes

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of…

— Neil Gaiman