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• Fortune favours the bold — Fortune favours the brave , Fortune helps the brave , and Fortune favours the strong are common translations of the famous and often quoted ancient Latin proverb Fortes fortuna adiuvat .The phrase means that Fortuna, the Goddess of luck, is more …   Wikipedia

• fortune favours the brave — Cf. ENNIUS Annals 257 (Vahlen) fortibus est fortuna viris data, fortune is given to brave men; VIRGIL Aeneid x. 284 audentes fortuna iuvat, fortune aids the bold. c 1385 CHAUCER Troilus & Criseyde IV. 600 Thenk ek Fortune, as wel thiselves woost …   Proverbs new dictionary

• fools for luck — The construction is apparent from quot. 1834. fortune favours fools expresses the same idea. Quot. 1981 appears to be a garbled version of this saying. Cf. 1631 JONSON Bartholomew Fair II. ii. Bring him a sixe penny bottle of Ale; they say, a… …   Proverbs new dictionary

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