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290 FORTUNE FORTUNE

Das Gliick erhebe billig der Begliickte.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

GoetheTorquato Tasso. II. 3. 115.


Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. IV. 4. 62.


Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;
He had not the method of making a fortune.
Gray—On his own Character.


Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many,
But yet she never gave enough to any.
Sir John Harrington—Epigram. Of Fortune.


The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

HomerIliad. Bk. XX. L. 85. Pope's trans.


Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit
Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea
Virtute me involvo, probamque
Pauperiem sine dote quaero.
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she
shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has
given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and
seek honest undowered Poverty.
Horace—Carmina. III. 29.


Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.
Something is always wanting to incomplete
fortune.
Horace—Carmina. III. 24. 64.


Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim,
Si pede major erit subvertet; si minor, uret.
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.
Horace—Epistles. I. 10. 42.
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Momenta cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.
In a moment comes either death or joyful
victory.
Horace—Satires. I. 1. 7.


Fortune, that favours fools.

Ben Jonson—Alchemist. Prologue. Every Man Out of His Humour. I. 1. Gooqe— Eghgs. (Quoted as a saying.)

(See also Claudianus)


Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
La Fontaine—Fables. X. 14.


II lit au front de ceux qu'un vain luxe environne,
Que la fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elledonne.
We read on the forehead of those who are
surrounded by a foolish luxury, that Fortune
sells what she is thought to give.
La Fontaine—Philemon et Baucis.


La fortune ne paralt jamais si aveugle qu' a
ceux a qui elle ne fait pas de bien.
Fortune never seems so blind as to those
upon whom she confers no favors.
La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. 391.


Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides.
The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune.
Livy—Annates. XXVIII. 17.


Non semper temeritas est felix.
Rashness is not always fortunate.
Livy—Annates. XXVIII. 42.


Non temere incerta casuum reputat, quern
fortuna numquam decepit.
He whom fortune has never deceived, rarely
considers the uncertainty of human events.
Lrvr—Annates. XXX. 30.


Raro simul hominibus bonam fortunam bonamque mentem dari.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune
and good sense at the same time.
Livy—Annates. XXX. 42.


Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.
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5. L. 281.


Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam
vehat aetas.
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will
bring.
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. III. 10. 98.


Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn
of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
Ammianus Marcellinus—Historia. XXVI.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing.
Take care that Fortune does not observe—or she
will call you ungrateful.
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. VI. Ep. 79.


Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to
none.
Martial—Epigrams. XII. 10. 2.


Audentem forsque Venusque juvant.
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. I. 608.
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 | text = <poem>Casus ubique valet: semper tibi pendeat hamus,
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Luck affects everything; let your hook
always be cast; in the stream where you least
expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. III. 425.


Fortuna miserrima tuta est :
Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.
Tne most wretched fortune is safe; for there
is no fear of anything worse.
Ovid—Epistoke Ex Panto. I. 2. 113.