296 Proverbs about Fortune / Page 8
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Another's misfortune is only a dream.142.
Fortune can take from us only what she has given us.143.
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain her to-morrow.144.
Greater qualities are needed to bear good fortune than bad.145.
Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.146.
Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome.147.
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.148.
One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one's friends.149.
The fool hunts for misfortune.150.
The most friendly fortune trips up your heels.151.
To a bold man fortune holds out her hand.152.
Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.153.
Where misfortune befals injuries follow.154.
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.155.
When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.156.
When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth.157.
If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.158.
When a crow is killed by a storm, the fortuneteller says, "He died by my curse."159.
There would be no good fortune had misfortune not helped.160.
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