Fortuna Quotes

• La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

  Louis Pasteur

  A favor

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• Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

  Virgil

  Latin, Favors, Fortune

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• 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

  Crush, Divinity, Wheels

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
  [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

  Plauto

  Affair, Fortune, Mould

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• 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

  Luck, Favour, Goddess

  Jacqueline Rayner (2013). “Doctor Who: The Stone Rose”, p.248, Random House

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• Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

  John Kennedy Toole

  Caprichoso

  John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”

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• 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

  Circles, Principles, Wheels

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

  Mason Cooley

  Fate, Crowds, Likes

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• 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

  Safe, No Fear, Fortune

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• Fortuna sonríe y frunce el ceño según un horario sorprendente incluso para ella misma.

  Mason Cooley

  Smile, Fate, Timetables

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• The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.

  Rick Riordan

  Tuna, Fine

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.365, Penguin UK

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• Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.
  [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande].

  Carlo Goldoni

  Noble, Bold Actions, Fortune

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• 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.

  Plauto

  Ego, Gold, Goodness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 326-29, Poenulus, I. 2. 90, 1922.

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• 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

  Principles, Oblivion, Fortune

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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.]

  Quinto Curcio Rufo

  Fashion, Long, Vices

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• 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?

  Rick Riordan

  June, Two, Battle

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Dunces

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press

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• Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
  [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
  Fortuna non mutat genus.]

  Horace

  Money, Proud, Birth

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