A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give their own characters
The name of Fortune.
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
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.
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
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.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
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