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Word with: "fortune"
"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Folly
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick
in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we
were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves,
thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary
influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition on the charge of a star."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Foppery
"Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]"
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
About: Forgiveness
"If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not
despond.
[Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;
Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]"
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
About: Fortune
"That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she
is the farther off."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Fortune
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see
Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Fortune
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Fortune
"Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou hast brought this land to!–"
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
About: Fortune
"Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote."
Author: Robert Browning
About: Fortune
"You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
[Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
- Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar),"
Author: Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar)
About: Fortune
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