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All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wealth, world, man

No fence against ill fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth

An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth

Whom fortune wishes to destroy, she first makes mad.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about destruction, wealth

If you have no enemies it's a sign fortune has forgot you.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about enemies, wealth, contentment

There would be no good fortune had misfortune not helped.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, good, good luck

Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, man

Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, good, good luck

A man may force a livelihood, but cannot force fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police, wealth, man

A man's best fortune, or his worst is a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wealth, wife, man

Flee as fast as you will, your fortune will be at your tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fasting, wealth, contentment

Unexpected good fortune, gets more appreciation.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about unforeseen, wealth, good, good luck

It takes both luck and good fortune just to fry eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about good luck, bad luck, wealth, good

Sit, sit, daughter, sit, because good fortune is coming.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, good, good luck

A good heart breaks bad fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, heart, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Women, wind, and fortune, soon change.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about change, wealth

To the bold man fortune gives her hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, man

People are the architects of their own fortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, people

Her father's fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

God grant you good fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about knowledge, wealth, god, contentment, good, good luck