“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortis fortuna adiuvat.
Variant translation: Fortune assists the brave.
Act I, scene 4, line 25 (203).
Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, Book X, line 284: "Audentes fortuna iuvat."
Phormio
“1599. Fortune favours Fools.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortes Fortuna iuvat.
Pliny the Elder (23–79) Roman military commander and writer
Attributed by Pliny the Younger to his uncle during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in which the Elder died <br class="br">Quoted in [Pliny, translated by William Melmoth, Letters of Pliny, c.100 CE, eBook, 1927, Bibliobytes, Hoboken, NJ, English, ISBN 0585049971, LXV, to Tacitus http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2811/2811-h/2811-h.htm#link2H_4_0065, p. 48, Here he stopped to consider whether he should turn back again; to which the pilot advising him, "Fortune", said he, "favours the brave; steer to where Pomponianus is."] <br class="br">Commonly quoted as "Fortune favours the bold".
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician
Fortunate Fool.
Song lyrics, Brushfire Fairytales (2001)
“To Fortune's forelock Charles knew how to cling
When favourable to him her face she showed.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Che ben pigliar nel crin la buona sorte
Carlo sapea, quando volgea la faccia.
Canto XVIII, stanza 161 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”
Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 3, Virtues And Vices, p. 77.