Most people judge men only by success or by fortune. François de La Rochefoucauld
No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him. Seneca
To win was always deemed a splendid thing, Whether it be by fortune or by skill. Ludovico Ariosto
I have lived and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune. And now my Shade will pass, illustrious, beneath the earth. Virgil