Fortune Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortune Good fortune Wealth
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
“Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]” — Marcus Valerius Martialis Copy Share Image
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Fortune means nothing. This time we must not fail." Fortune? I like money.” — Julie Reece Copy Share Image
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus 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
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