Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Fortune, that favors fools.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.