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Tag Name "Fortuna" (10)

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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Horace
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La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada
Louis Pasteur
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Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Plautus
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Elections only happen in two ways, Reyna said. Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days. Percy frowned. You have a feast for tuna?
Rick Riordan
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Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]
Carlo Goldoni
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Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.
John Kennedy Toole
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The most wretched fortune is safe for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
Ovid
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A good disposition I far prefer to gold for gold is the gift of fortune goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.
Plautus
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The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.
Rick Riordan