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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.