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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

  Alexander Pope

  Reign, Fickle, Crowns

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,
  One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,
  The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd,
  The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Cobblers, Rags

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.221

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• Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

  Martial

  Giving, Too Much, Enough

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• A great mind becomes a great fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Mind, Great Minds

  "De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Fate

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• The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Mean, Men, One Man

  Song: World on Fire, Album: Afterglow, 2003

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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  Wilson Mizner

  Ambition, Men, People

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• I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

  Wilson Mizner

  Lawyer, Contact, Convinced

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• If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Agency, Worry

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Air, Doe, Kind

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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Criminals

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius

  Happiness, Depression, Depressing

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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  Martial

  Giving, Too Much, Wealth

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.549

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• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Attitude, Ambition

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake

  God, Kissing, Luck

  William Blake (1979). “Complete writings: with variant readings”

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• Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wheels, Stills, Highest

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.20

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• All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Winning, Favors

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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid

  Fear, Blessing, Stealing

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