290 FORTUNE FORTUNE
Das Gliick erhebe billig der Begliickte.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;
He had not the method of making a fortune.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many,
But yet she never gave enough to any.
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit
Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea
Virtute me involvo, probamque
Pauperiem sine dote quaero.
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
Curtæ nescio quid semper abest rei.
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim,
Si pede major erit subvertet; si minor, uret.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Momenta cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
Fortune, that favours fools.
Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
II lit au front de ceux qu'un vain luxe environne,
Que la fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elledonne.
We read on the forehead of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that Fortune sells what she is thought to give.
La fortune ne paralt jamais si aveugle qu' a ceux à qui elle ne fait pas de bien.
Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors.
Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides.
The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune.
Non semper temeritas est felix.
Rashness is not always fortunate.
Non temere incerta casuum reputat, quern fortuna numquam decepit.
He whom fortune has never deceived, rarely considers the uncertainty of human events.
Raro simul hominibus bonam fortunam bonamque mentem dari.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.
Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat ætas.
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe—or she will call you ungrateful.
Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
Audentem forsque Venusque juvant.
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
Casus ubique valet: semper tibi pendeat hamus,
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Fortuna miserrima tuta est :
Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
