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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Jean de La Fontaine

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Desiderius Erasmus

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Hector Elizondo

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Maria Edgeworth

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Placido Domingo