Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
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