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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
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.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
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 converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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.