it can be deny but outward accident conduce much to fortune favour opportunity  death of other occasion fit virtue but chief the mould of a man fortune be in  his own hand Faber whoever it be chance of oneself say the poet and the most  frequent of external cause be that the folly of one man be the fortune of  another for no man prosper so sudden as by other error Serpens nisi serpent  comederi non fit draco Overt and apparent virtue bring forth praise but there  be secret and hide virtue that bring forth fortune certain delivery of a man  self which have no name the Spanish name desemboltura partly express they when  there be not stand nor restiveness in a man nature but that the wheel of his  mind keep way with the wheel of his fortune for so Livy after he have describe  Cato major in these word in there man so much robur substantial object et  animi to be ut wherever loco born be chance Himself creation to see fall upon  that that he have versatile ingenium therefore if a man look sharp and  attentive he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she be not  invisible the way of fortune be like the milken way in the sky which be a  meeting or knot of a number of small star not see asunder but give light  together so be there a number of little and scarce discern virtue or rather  faculty and custom that make man fortunate the Italian note some of they such  as a man will little think when they speak of one that can do amiss they will  throw in into his other condition that he have Poco if matto and certain there  be not two more fortunate property than to have a little of the fool and not  too much of the honest therefore extreme lover of their country or master be  never fortunate neither can they be for when a man place his think without  himself he go not his own way a hasty fortune make a enterpriser and remover  the French have it better entreprenant or remuant but the exercise fortune  make the able man fortune be to be honour and respect and it be but for her  daughter confidence and reputation for those two felicity breed the first  within a man self the latter in other towards he all wise man to decline the  envy of their own virtue use to ascribe they to providence and fortune for so  they may the better assume they and beside it be greatness in a man to be the  care of the high power so Caesar say to the pilot in the tempest  founded by him portas et chance he so Sulla choose the name of Felix and not  of magnus and it have be note that those who ascribe open too much to their  own wisdom and policy end infortunate it be write that Timotheus the Athenian  after he have in the account he give to the state of his government often  interlace this speech and in this fortune have no part never prosper in  anything he undertake afterward certain there be who fortune be like Homer  verse that have a slide and easiness more than the verse of other poet as  plutarch say of Timoleon fortune in respect of that of Agesilaus or  Epaminondas and that this shall be no doubt it be much in a man self