| Fortune or prosperity is something that always favors | | | | who rarely seek it. Only an ardent wisher of fortune |
| the bold. Although fortune is said to be blind, with no | | | | can have it. If we just sit and wish for luck to befall, it |
| distinction between the good and the bad, the wise | | | | would not happen. Only if we try something worthwhile |
| and the foolish and the brave and the cowardly, it can | | | | which needs luck, shall we have fortune. |
| be seen that fortune mainly favors those who are | | | | Fortune in the broad sense is not merely money. It can |
| always bold enough to take up some venture which | | | | be prosperity, success, fame or anything. There are |
| summons luck. | | | | many situations in life that we need luck. We should |
| In horse races, fortune favors only those who are | | | | keep up hope that something lucky will happen in times |
| willing to stake their money. Those who do not stake | | | | of peril and distress. If we lose heart, we are |
| their money remain outside, they cannot enter | | | | unknowingly blocking fortune out. Only bold people who |
| horse-race. Similarly luck befalls mostly on those | | | | have courage not to lose heart can have access to |
| people who seek it out. Fortune comes not to those | | | | fortune! |