Fortune Quote by Seneca the Elder Download Open image “It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.” — Seneca the Elder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortune Manly Turns
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of… — Menander Copy Share Image
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.] — Marie Jeanne Riccoboni Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into… — William Mathews Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.” — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
