Calamities¹ are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

J. S. Bryan

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,

And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Phormio

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)