Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“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)

“When the old man on the border lost his horse, who could know that it was good fortune in disguise?”
—Chinese proverb.

“The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)