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Quotes About Fortune

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
~ Plutarch
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
~ Seneca the Younger
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
~ Martin Lewis Perl
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
~ Robert Rhodes James
What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?
~ Jean Racine
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
~ Joshua Ferris
Chance created the situation
~ genius made use of it.
Luck often comes to those who are brave.
~ Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
~ Horace
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
~ Thomas Browne
A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
No man was ever wise by chance.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
~ Laurence Sterne
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
~ Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
~ Epicurus
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
~ Juvenal
Luck never made a man wise.
~ Seneca the Younger