Fortuna Quotes

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  • 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.]

    Fashion   Long   Vices  
  • When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

    Dunces   Fortuna  
    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press
  • So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

    John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

    Money   Proud   Birth  
  • 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

    Luck   Favour   Goddess  
    Jacqueline Rayner (2013). “Doctor Who: The Stone Rose”, p.248, Random House
  • The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.

    Tuna   Fine   Fortuna  
    Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.365, Penguin UK
  • Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

    Smile   Fate   Fortuna  
  • The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]

    Safe   No Fear   Fortune  
  • La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

    Favors   Fortuna  
  • Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

    Fate   Crowds   Likes  
  • A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

    Ego   Gold   Goodness  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 326-29, Poenulus, I. 2. 90, 1922.
  • Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

    Affair   Fortune   Mould  
  • Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

    John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”
  • Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?

    June   Two   Battle  
  • 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.

    Crush   Divinity   Wheels  
    John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

    Latin   Favors   Fortune  
  • 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.]

  • Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

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