Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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