When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Maxim 277.
Fortune is like glass,—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Maxim 280.
It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
Maxim 282.
His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.[709:3]
Maxim 283.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.[709:4]
Maxim 301.