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Grasping the good fortune that the ground on which you are standing cannot be larger than the two feet covering it.
The Zurau Aphorisms (24)
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Siddhartha
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders
Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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