“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
Book XXX, sec. 42
History of Rome
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Roman historian -59–17 BCRelated quotes
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“In history, the arrival of a small man in a big hat is rarely good news.”
Andrew Marr (1959) British journalist
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode VI, Revolution (28 October 2012)
“The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Of Courage, Chap. xxix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Source: Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Honoré de Balzac book Physiology of Marriage
Avoir sa belle-mère en province quand on demeure à Paris, et vice versa, est une de ces bonnes fortunes qui se rencontrent toujours trop rarement.
Part III, Meditation XXV: Allies, Section II: Of the Mother-in-Law.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)