Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.