Top 7 Vicissitudes Quotes

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Boethius

Virtue, Fortune, Vicissitudes

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

Benjamin Graham

Mountain, Ordinary, Vicissitudes

Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

The sad vicissitude of things.

Laurence Sterne

Vicissitudes

"Sermons, Volume I". Book by Laurence Sterne (Sermon No. 16), 1760.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Hugh Blair

World, Violent, Vicissitudes

Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.17

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Jean Baudrillard

Quality, Vicissitudes, Said

Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.131, University of Michigan Press

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

Maggie, Vicissitudes, Young

The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 3 (1860)