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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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.