"Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom."
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"Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune."
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"However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes."
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"Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good."
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"Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct."
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"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites."
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"Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles."
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"I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself."
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"Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother."
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"People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites."
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"I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed."
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"The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them."
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"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."
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"I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public."
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"To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune."
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"I never pay a fortune for clothes."
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"I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory."
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"We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base"
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"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."
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"…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children."
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