Calamities1 are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
J. S. Bryan
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
Fortune helps the brave.
Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Phormio
Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
