英语名人名言: Fortune 财富

　　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)

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