A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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.
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.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
With guitar, I'd always mixed more sounds that occur in hip-hop, or occur on Crystal Method records, or occur at the zoo - so I've never been sort of tethered or have limited myself to the traditional rock n' roll vocabulary.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
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.
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Fortune, that favors fools.
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