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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum. – August Strindberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. – Pliny the Elder	added by anonymous 10 years ago
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. – John Kenneth Galbraith	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror. – G. I. Gurdjieff	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations. – Herodotus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less. – John Christian Bovee	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. – Grenville Kleiser	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. – Lawrence Downs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting. – Hermes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. – Peter Mere Latham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Because of Christ's resurrection--and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him--we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain. – Bob Wilkin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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