Quotes with fortune-telling

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• A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  A. A. Milne
  English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.

  Ben Johnston
   
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• Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

  Bhagavad Gita
  Indian Hindu storybook
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• He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Molière
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
  

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointments
• inconsistent
• established
• unhappiness
• inequality
• appearance

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