Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.