A Quote by Ben Jonson
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Fortune favors the prepared.
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune favors the audacious.
Fortune favors the well-prepared.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.
Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. ... his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favors of fortune.
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