Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Three Worlds, Three Summers — But Not the Summer Just Past.
“His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.”
Maxim 283
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
I.i.2
Epistulae ad Caesarem senem
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
Appius Claudius Caecus Roman politician
Sallust, Epistulae ad Caesarem senem, I.1.2
“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Fortune
Essays (1625)
“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.”
Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694) French writer
Nul n'est content de sa fortune;
Ni mécontent de son esprit.
from Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 690
