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The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
Sometimes when you gamble, you get up from the table with a fortune.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.
One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.
Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.