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To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend read more
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
 You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
 [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius read more 
 You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
 [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar), 
 Fortune favors the brave.
 [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]  
 Fortune favors the brave.
 [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.] 
 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a 
goodly heritage.  
 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a 
goodly heritage. 
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
 Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the 
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in read more 
 Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the 
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a 
common grave. 
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
 That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in 
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune read more 
 That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in 
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath 
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she 
is the farther off."