Fortune
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied
The folly of one man is the fortune of another
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible
Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky
Fortune cannot take away what she did not give
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down
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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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