A Quote by Pierre Corneille

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

Pierre Corneille

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Pierre Corneille
French - Dramatist
June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

Pierre Corneille

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

Thomas Jefferson

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Seneca the Younger

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

Clarence Darrow

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.

Linda S. Reeves

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

Clayton M. Christensen

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Deepak Chopra

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

Norm MacDonald

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

William Shenstone

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Anthony Daniels

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