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A great fortune is a great slavery. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great mind becomes a great fortune. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. -- Honore de Balzac
I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows. -- Rhea Seehorn
For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people. -- Dick Van Patten
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. -- Emmanuelle Beart
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
A great fortune enslaves its owner. -- Publilius Syrus
A great fortune is a great slavery. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great mind becomes a great fortune. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job. -- Carla Gugino
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous -- Livy
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. -- Napoleon Hill
I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together. -- Curtis Hanson
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer. -- John O. Brennan
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority. -- Hugh Dalton
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving. -- Napoleon Hill
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony. -- Napoleon Hill
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune! -- Carlos Castaneda
On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did. -- James Burrows
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom. -- Philippa Gregory
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. -- Peter Matthiessen
People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. -- Carlo Goldoni
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. -- Robert Harris
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. -- Luc de Clapiers
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. -- Julie Andrews
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. -- Francis Bacon
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. -- Benjamin Franklin
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. -- Bodhidharma
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. -- Friedrich Schiller
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. -- Julius Caesar
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon. -- Shari Arison
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. -- Robert Fortune
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. -- George Herbert
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Jackie Kennedy
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. -- Vincent Voiture
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. -- Aristotle
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. -- Moliere
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. -- Joshua Ferris
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. -- Ben Jonson
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune! -- Jean de la Bruyere
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you. -- Chris Prentiss
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. -- Leonard Maltin
If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune. -- Horace Greeley
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga. -- Andrew Harvey
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust. -- Gautama Buddha
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. -- Alexandre Dumas
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. -- Edward Abbey
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. -- William J. Clinton
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.] -- Carlo Goldoni
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief. -- Plutarch
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years. -- Joe Pantoliano

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