In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the role of fortune as it relates to long life situates itself between these two moral poles of the inevitability of the seven ages of man, that is, his destiny, and pure chance, the face of fortune which favors the bold but which also, in an equally frequent formulation, favors fools. This chapter explains about how to live a good long life, Pierre Jaquelot's L'Art de vivre longuement sous le nom de Medee, from 1630, and in the last of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne, 'De l'experience', which is peppered with references to fortune, and which ends with a plea and a prayer on behalf of old age. The chapter suggests that, a profound linking in Montaigne's essay of the habit and health of the body to the question of time, and this is perhaps most legible in his comments on fortune and long life.