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en The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
  Denis Diderot

en Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
  Seneca

en Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
  James Weldon Johnson

en The usual fortune for complaint is to excite contempt more than pity
  Samuel Johnson

en Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
  Seneca

en Our wisdom is no less at the mercy of Fortune than our goods.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en "I'll follow thy fortune," a termagant cries, Whose extravagance caused all the evil; "That were some consolation,'' the husband replies, "For my fortune has gone to the devil
  Virgil

en Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
  Bobby Unser

en It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
  Francesco Petrarch

en Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

en A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind. His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive.
  Thomas Carlyle


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