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 2. A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery,imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant,whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

 3. All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

 4. Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as ofchance.

 5. Birth goes with death.Fortune goes with misfortune.Bad things follow good things.Men should realize these. Foolish people dread misfortune and strive after good fortune, but those who seek Enlightenment must transcend both of them and be free of the worldly attachments. Fortune is never permanently...adverse or favorable; one sees her veering from one mood to the other.

 6. But blind to former as to future fate,What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

 7. Chance generally favors the prudent.

 8. Chance is a word void of sense;nothing can exist without a cause.

 9. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast;in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

10. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

11. Death and life have their determined appointments;riches and honors depend upon heaven.

12. Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

13. Destiny -A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

14. Diseases are often cured Never fate.

15. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

16. Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

17. Fate steals along with silent tread,Found oftenest in what least we dread;Frowns in the storm with angry brow,But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

18. Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

19. Fortune is a shadow upon a wall.

20. Fortune!There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.

21. Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth, - and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

22. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all.

23. I do not know beneath what skyNor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

24. If a man look sharply and attentively,he shall see Fortune:for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

25. If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

26. If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

27. Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not.

28. Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

29. Intellect annuls fate.So far as a man thinks, he is free.

30. It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events,because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by Prudence.

31. It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

32. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves;we are underlings.

33. Luck is tenacity of purpose.

34. Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece ofgood fortune and a last day.

35. No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

36. People naturally fear misfortune and long for good fortune, but if the distinction is carefully studied, misfortune often turns out to be good fortune and good fortune to be misfortune.

37. The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor depressed by failure.

38. Persevere:It is fitting, for a better fate awaits the afflicted.

39. See that prosperity elate not thine heart above measure; neither depress thy mind unto the depths, because fortune beareth hard against thee.

40. Her smiles are not stable, therefore build not thy confidence upon them; her frowns endureth not forever, therefore let hope teach thee patience Great progress and success can be realized. But spring does not last forever, and the favorable trend will reverse itself in due time.

41. The wise man foresees evil and handles its threat accordingly.

42. That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach,and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may be.

43. The bad fortune of the goodturns their faces up to heaven;the good fortune of the badbows their heads down to the earth.

44. The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

45. The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable,for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

46. Every night and every morn Some to misery are born; Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight.

47. It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.

48. Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

49. It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the eastor from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

50. No man has perpetual good fortune. Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good senseat the same time.

51. Fortune is brittle as glass, and when she is most refulgent, she is often most unexpectedly broken.

52. A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

53. This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.

54. Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

55. The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

56. He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position.

57. Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her.

58. Fortune is like the market, where, many times,if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

59. Men at some time are masters of their fates.

60. Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

61. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.

62. He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.

63. Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason.

64. Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

65. Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

66. There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

67. Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.

68. Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

69. Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

70. Happy the man who can endure the highestand the lowest fortune.

71. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

72. Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

73. The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

74. Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

75. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune: for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

76. The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

77. Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

78. Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

79. The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

80. The wheel goes round and round,And some are up and some are on the down,And still the wheel goes round.

81. The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, "I shall to-day be uppermost."

82. The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on.It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour.

83. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatingsof the heart of manifestation Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloonand does not hear her.

84. There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at theflood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such afull sea we are now afloat; and we must take the currentwhen it serves, or lose our ventures.

85. They are raised on high that they may be dashed topieces with a greater fall.

86. Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

87. 'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

88. 'Tis writ on Paradise's gate" Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"

89. Two fates still hold us fast, A future and a past;Two vessels' vast embraceSurrounds us - Time and Space.

90. We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

91. We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

92. We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never applyviolent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

93. What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

94. Whatever fortune has raised to a height,she has raised only to cast it down.

95. When fortune favors a man too much, she makes him a fool.

96. Whenever we ask what end Our Maker did intend,Some answering voice is heard That utters no plain word.

97. Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

98. Whether in favor or in humiliation, be not dismayed.et your eyes leisurely look at the flowers blooming and falling in your courtyard.Whether you leave or retainyour position, take no care.Let your mind wander withthe clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon.

99. Will Fortune never come with both hands full,But write her fair words still in foulest letters?She either gives a stomach, and no food;Such are the poor, in health: or else a feast,And takes away the stomach; such are the rich,That have abundance, and enjoy it not.