Splendid Audentes Fortuna Iuvat Tattoo - Guiding You To Do Amazing Things. The meaning of audentes fortuna juvat is fortune favors the bold. This photo is from my recent wedding.
It reads “audentes fortuna iuvat” (“fortune favors the brave”) and comes from book x, line 284 of the aeneid by publius vergilius maro (virgil). Background [ edit] fortune favours the bold is the translation of a latin proverb, which exists in several forms with slightly different wording but effectively identical meaning, such as. John's tattoo reads, “fortis fortuna.