fortu-, fortun- +

1. To day that something good or lucky has happened: "Fortunately for us, these documents have been preserved."
2. A term which is used to show that the speaker or writer is happy to be able to report something: "Fortunately, we've been given more time to finish our project."

1. A position in life as determined by wealth: "He found a way to make his fortune."
2. Wealth or riches: "There are too many who have lost their fortunes in bad investments."
3. Great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: "Her inheritance appears to be worth a fortune."
4. Chance; luck; an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome: "The brothers each had the good fortune of marrying the right women."
5. Fortunes are things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life."
6. Fate; one's lot or destiny: "I am prepared to live with whatever my fortune may be."
7. Having good luck; success; prosperity: "Her family was blessed with fortune."
8. To tell someone's fortune or destiny, to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her life; to foretell the future.

A person who is trying to become very wealthy; especially, by marrying a wealthy person.

Seance fiction.

1. A person who claims to use special powers to tell what will happen to someone in the future.
2. A person who tells people's fortunes.

It is easier to meet with Fortune, than to keep her.

Deserving or inciting pity.

1. An unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from a bad event.
2. An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes or distressing occurrences.
3. Bad luck, or an unlucky event.
4. A calamity; a mishap.

Count not that as yours which fortune has made yours.

1. Never experiencing good luck.
2. Accompanied by or bringing bad luck.
3. Not appropriate to a given situation.

1. Used when someone wishes something were not true: "Unfortunately, I didn't get there before she left."
2. In a way that is inappropriate to a given situation: "Unfortunately, the plane was not able to land safely."

Chance, not wisdom, governs human life.

Another interpretation: "Life is mostly a matter of luck."