333 Quotes About Fortune

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

What if I change?" she asked the fortune teller, all those years go, sure that knowledge could save her from bad luck and tragedy. "Most people don't," the woman said.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

As greed prevails, greed will unveil the evil.

The philosopher who travels the world in order to learn must put up with all customs, all religions, all kinds of weather and climate, all beds and all kinds of food, and leave to the voluptuous, indolent man in the capital his prejudices...his luxury...that obscene luxury that, as it never contains any real needs, creates artificial ones every day at the expense of fortune and health.

It is easier to earn fame than earning a fortune.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate, beyond this he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced he deserves it and above all that he deserves it in comparison with others. Good fortune, thus wants to be legitimate fortune.