Fortune

"Audentem forsque Venusque juvant."

"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."

"Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides."

"Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli."

"Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam."

"Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet."

"Fortune, that favours fools."

"La fortune ne paraît jamais si aveugle qu' a ceux à qui elle ne fait pas de bien."

"Raro simul hominibus bonam fortunam bonamque mentem dari."

"You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe—or she will call you ungrateful."

"Fortuna miserrima tute est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest."

"Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris."

"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, For when at worst, they say, things always mend."

"C'est la fortune de France."

"Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim, Si pede major erit subvertet; si minor, uret."

"Horæ Momento cita mors venit aut victoria læta."

"Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse."

"Il lit au front de ceux qu'un vain luxe environne, Que la fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne."

"Non semper temeritas est felix."

"Non temere incerta casuum reputat, quem fortuna numquam decepit."

"Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat ætas."

"Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunæ, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus."

"Casus ubique valet: semper tibi pendeat hamus, Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit."

"The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And fortune smil'd, deceitful, on her birth."

"Adspirat primo Fortuna labori."

"Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi."

"To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals."

"Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi."

"That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.""

"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."

"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote."

"Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam."

"Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,—and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth."

"Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia."

"Fors juvat audentes."

"Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis."

"If hindrances obstruct thy way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in."

"Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more."

"Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay."

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

"Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum."

"Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave."

"Das Glück erhebe billig der Beglückte."

"Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschäftig sein sobald sie reift."

"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune."

"Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any."

"The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain."

"Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quæ dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quære."

"Curtæ nescio quid semper abest rei."

"Actutum fortunæ solent mutarier; varia vita est."