The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
