Famous quotes containing the word fortune:
“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
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