"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind." - Anacharsis

"Fortune, that favours fools." - Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth." - Saadi

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down." - Seneca

"Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted." - Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 9:11

"Luck is not chance
It's Toil
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned"
- EMILY DICKINSON, Luck is not chance

"Fortune's wheel never stands still - the highest point is therefore the most perilous." - MARIA EDGEWORTH, Patronage

"Fortune gives many too much, but none enough." - MARTIAL, Epigrams

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind." - LOUIS PASTEUR, speech (1854)

"When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted." - SENECA, De Tranquillitate Animi

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit." - JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects