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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.