“Fortune favors the bold.”
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Variant translations:
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune helps the daring.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Compare:
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
Fortune is given to brave men.
Ennius, Annales, 257
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Line 284
Original
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
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Virgil 138
Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BCRelated quotes
“Fortune is like a widow won,
And truckles to the bold alone.”
The Fortune-Hunter, Canto II.
“It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.”
Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
Maxim 282
Sentences
“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”
Maxim 275
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Fortune assists the Bold, the Valiant Man
Oft Conqueror proves, because he thinks he can.”
Fab. LII: Of the Forrester, the Skinner, and a Bear, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans from<cite>Dr. Martin Luthers Vermischte Deutsche Schriften</cite>. Johann K. Irmischer, ed. Vol. 63(Erlangen: Heyder and Zimmer, 1854), pp.124-125. (EA 63:124-125) http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/luther-faith.txt
Context: Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.
“Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it.”
Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 7 (pp. 92-93)
