Fortune Quotes

Fortune refers to destiny, especially favorable. It commonly describes a prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller, a small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie, and the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to good luck, one's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast, and a large amount of money, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Fortune as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include to happen, take place, to provide with a fortune, and to presage; to tell the fortune of, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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Virgil

(70 BC-19 BC)

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Terence

(185 BC-159 BC)

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Suzanne Necker

(1737-1794)