Top 28 Quotes About Fortuna
#1. Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.
John Kennedy Toole
#2. The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.
Rick Riordan
#3. But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
Sallust
#4. Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Plautus
#5. Still, if I was really relying on luck, I might as well roll the dice. I stood up, trying to remember the name of the old Roman goddess of chance - Fortuna? It didn't matter. I was quite sure she only spoke Latin, and I didn't. I
Jeff Lindsay
#6. The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#7. This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile
Jacqueline Rayner
#8. Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.
Mason Cooley
#9. Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
#11. Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."
["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]
Juvenal
#12. Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#13. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#14. The only article Lady Fortuna has no control over is your behavior. Good luck.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#16. Lupa and her wolves are trying to slow them down, but this force is too strong even for them. The enemy will be here soon - by the Feast of Fortuna
Rick Riordan
#18. Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.
Mason Cooley
#19. Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")
Thomas Kyd
#20. When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
John Kennedy Toole
#21. The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
[Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
Ovid
#22. Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Horace
#23. I think, therefore I'll think.
Ayn Rand
#24. Most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid.
Katie Kacvinsky
#25. Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.
William Deresiewicz
#26. Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she would try and hitch a lift on the wheel, too, as soon as she possibly could. She must already have been thinking out how. But she couldn't have guessed how soon her chance would come.
Vanora Bennett
#27. Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood
Robert Greene
#28. First and last step toward happiness: No demands and No complains.
Vijay Dhameliya
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