quote · Words worth keeping
Fortune favors the bold.
Fortune favors the bold.
Meaning
People who bravely go after what they want are more successful than people who try to live safely.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Cicero
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 75 BC · classical
author lifetime midpoint (-106–-43); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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