We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
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 favors the prepared mind.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.