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Fortune (n.) is a door that opens inward so one can do nothing about it, one cannot push it open by rushing at it.
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Fortune (n.) has two factors where accident has one: it is accidental that Homer found the Trojan War, fortunate that the Trojan War fell to Homer.
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Fortune (n.) has doors that open outward, not inward, so storming them only holds them shut.
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Fortune (n.) is the means to live wholly for pleasure — a 'fortune' that comes not from the gracious but from the angry gods.
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Fortune (n.) never makes anyone so lucky he could not become unlucky, nor so unlucky he could not become more so.