Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.
Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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