Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Good fortune lieth within bad, and bad fortune within good.”
—Lao-tzu.

“When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)