A Quote by Statius
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
[Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
Appone.]
We are corrupted by good fortune.
[Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
[Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
[Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]
No man has perpetual good fortune.
[Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
[Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
[Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
Every man should stay within his own fortune.
[Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
[Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
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