| A great mind becomes a great fortune. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
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| Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. -- Voltaire |
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VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. -- Samuel Johnson |
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Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. -- Anacharsis |
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AnacharsisEra:
-600 |
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| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. -- François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
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La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Diligence is the mother of good fortune. -- Cervantes |
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CervantesEra:
1547 |
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| fortune and love favor the brave. -- Ovid |
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OvidEra:
-43 |
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| Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. -- I Ching |
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Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. -- Saskya Pandita |
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Pandita, SaskyaEra:
1182 |
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| The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. -- Jean B. Moliere |
| Author:
Moliere, Jean B.Era:
1622 |
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| Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred A. Montapert |
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Montapert, Alfred A.Era:
1910 |
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| The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. -- Saadi |
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SaadiEra:
1184 |
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| As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. -- Sallust |
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SallustEra:
-86 |
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| The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. -- Francis Bacon |
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Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you. -- Saadi |
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SaadiEra:
1184 |
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| Call it Nature, Fate, fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. -- Publilius Syrus |
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Syrus, PubliliusEra:
-42 |
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| There is such malice in men as to rejoice in misfortunes and from another's woes to draw delight. -- Terence |
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TerenceEra:
-195 |
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