“Fortune favors the brave," I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.”
Source: Magic Breaks
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“It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.”
Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
Maxim 282
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“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”
Maxim 275
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“I also admit that some gray-haired men are stupid but that doesn’t mean I am. I know myself.”
Source: Quotes from Thorns in The desert, P. 11.

Quote in a letter to his friend Peiresc, 18 Dec. 1634; as cited by Simon Schrama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 402
1625 - 1640
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 102