If painted Fortune pass your door, seize her, and bear her in, and tumble her. She has the soul of any whore. Do what you will, you cannot humble her. Throw all your gold about, and she will stay. Try to economize, and she’s away.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Vol. I, London and New York: Routledge, 1964, p. 286.