Fortune Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortune Ifs Wealth
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Vincent Voiture Copy Share Image
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger 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
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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
