fortune

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

Fortune favours the bold.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.

[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is struck down by a misfortune, grows angry, or loses heart, he shows in this way that he finds things different from what he expected, and consequently that he laboured under a mistake, did not know the world and life, did not know how at every step the will of the individual is crossed and thwarted by the chance of inanimate nature, by contrary aims and intentions, even by the malice inspired in others. Therefore either he has not used his reason to arrive at a general knowledge of this characteristic of life, or he lacks the power of judgement, when he does not again recognize in the particular what he knows in general, and when he is therefore surprised by it and loses his self-control. Thus every keen pleasure is an error, an illusion, since no attained wish can permanently satisfy, and also because every possession and every happiness is only lent by chance for an indefinite time, and can therefore be demanded back in the next hour. Thus both originate from defective knowledge. Therefore the wise man always holds himself aloof from jubilation and sorrow, and no event disturbs his _α_αξία [ataraxia]."__rom_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, p. 88

The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices _ Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life__ work that has failed, your schemes that have proved illusions. But like a man prepared, like a brave man, bid farewell to her, to Alexandria who is departing. Above all, do not delude yourself, do not say that it is a dream, that your ear was mistaken. Do not condescend to such empty hopes. Like a man for long prepared, like a brave man, like the man who was worthy of such a city, go to the window firmly, and listen with emotion but not with the prayers and complaints of the coward (Ah! supreme rapture!) listen to the notes, to the exquisite instruments of the mystic choir,and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria whom you are losing.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!

FAITH in God is the only fortune, there is.