Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman."
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Fortune
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Socrates
Philosopher
"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
Virgil
Poet
"Fortune sides with he who dares"
Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics."
Stuart Wilde
Author, Speaker
"Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate."
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"Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need."
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"Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold."
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"True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away."
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"Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good."
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"You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is."
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"I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her."
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"One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune."
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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service."
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"No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune."
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"Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance."
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"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."
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"The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it."
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"Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray."
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"Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces."
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"Fame and fortune, how empty they can be."
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"Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes."
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"We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune."
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"Fortune can take away riches, but not courage."
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"I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms."
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