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He says "May fortune favor the foolish.". A 1998 Flaming Carrot Comics collection was titled "Flaming Carrot Comics: Fortune Favors the Bold!". In the movies John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2, the title character bears a tattoo across his upper back reading "FORTIS FORTUNA ADIUVAT". "Fortis" means both "strong" and "brave".
When William begins to undress in his tent, he is interrupted by Jane (Silvia Presente) and her little sister Fanny (Florrie May Wilkinson). “Fortune favors the bold,” Jane says to him in Latin.
Fortune favors the bold: From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 10, 284, where the first word is in an archaic form, audentis fortuna iuvat. Allegedly the last words of Pliny the Elder before he left the docks at Pompeii to rescue people from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Often quoted as audaces fortuna iuvat.
Fortune favors the brave or Fortune favors the strong: From Terence's comedy play Phormio, line 203. Also spelled fortis fortuna adiuvat. The motto of HMS Brave and USS Florida. fortes fortuna iuvat: Fortune favors the brave: From the letters of Pliny the Younger, Book 6, Letter 16. Often quoted as fortes fortuna juvat.
1 The phrase was used as the motto of the Royal Air Force station based at East Fortune, in East Lothian. The base was operational in the First World War and between 1940 and 1947. The base was operational in the First World War and between 1940 and 1947.
Other companies may be swayed by the prevailing winds, but not GMO. It invests where the opportunities lie, rather than where the headlines indicate. The 2013 indicators do not favor stocks.
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"Fortune favors the bold. Make for where Pomponianus is." [40] — Pliny the Elder, Roman military commander and author (October 79 CE), after being advised to turn back from Herculaneum during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.