Fortune Quote #299

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin,
1759

Fortune Quote #298

The trouble with doing nothing is that you don't know when you're
finished. -- Benjamin Franklin

Fortune Quote #297

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. --
Benjamin Disraeli

Fortune Quote #296

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Fortune Quote #295

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it
places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the
dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than
the empire. -- Balzac

Fortune Quote #294

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his
friends. -- Baltasar Gracian

Fortune Quote #293

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. --
Bacon

Fortune Quote #292

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not.
-- Bacon

Fortune Quote #291

It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
-- Augustus de Morgan

Fortune Quote #290

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit
the target. -- Ashleigh Brilliant