To force yourself to do something unpleasant or difficult, or to be brave in a difficult situation "people expect him to score in every game now he's hit a purple patch." If I had Rothschild’s fortune I should be satisfied.-I should rather think so! Si j'avais la fortune de rothschild, je serais content.-vous n'êtes pas dégoûté! Se dit en parlant d’une personne qui devient riche sans rien faire He was very cautious with his words and gave no hostages to fortune. To take an action or make a statement that is risky because it could cause you trouble later. Luck is usually on the side of those who take chances and risks. To bear up against misfortune To make the best of a bad job. She has a large fortune in her own right. Le bonheur de chacun dépend de sa conduite. Il faut prendre des risques pour réussir.Ĭhacun a dans sa vie un souris de la fortune
The bravest of the brave A hero of the first water. The proverb may be a rewording of a line by Democritus that "boldness is the beginning of the action, but fortune controls how it ends" (Ancient Greek: Τόλμα πρήξιος αρχή, τύχη δε τέλεος κυρίη, romanized: Tólma préxios arché, túche de téleos kuríe).Ĭlick here to read the flipbook.Alternative form of fortune favors the bold.Īlternative form of not do someone any favors Louis Pasteur, the French microbiologist and chemist, made this remark: "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés", meaning "In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind." The Latin phrase Fortuna Eruditis Favet ("fortune favours the prepared mind") is also used. Pliny the Younger quotes his uncle, Pliny the Elder, as using the phrase Fortes fortuna iuvat when deciding to take his fleet and investigate the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, in the hope of helping his friend Pomponianus: "'Fortes' inquit 'fortuna iuvat: Pomponianum pete.'" ("'Fortune', he said, 'favours the brave: head for Pomponianus.'") Pliny the Elder ultimately died during the expedition. Ovid further parodies the phrase at I.608 of his didactic work, Ars Amatoria, writing "audentem Forsque Venusque iuvat" or "Venus, like Fortune, favors the bold." Fortuna refers to luck or its personification, a Roman goddess.Īnother version of the proverb, fortes Fortuna adiuvat, 'fortune favours the strong/brave', was used in Terence's 151 BC comedy play Phormio, line 203. This last form is used by Turnus, an antagonist in the Aeneid by Virgil. The slogan has been used historically by people in the military in the Anglosphere, and it is used up to the present on the coats of arms of individual families and clans.įortune favours the bold is the translation of a Latin proverb, which exists in several forms with slightly different wording but effectively identical meaning, such as audentes Fortuna iuvat, audentes Fortuna adiuvat, Fortuna audaces iuvat, and audentis Fortuna iuvat.
Meaning those who take risks tend to be richly rewarded the brave tend to be the most successful. "Fortune favours the bold", "Fortune favours the brave" and "Fortune favours the strong" are common translations of a Latin proverb. His Aeneid is also considered a national epic of ancient Rome, a title held since its composition. Virgil has been traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. Virgil's work has had a wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars consider his authorship of these poems as dubious. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Publius Vergilius Maro was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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