A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
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.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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