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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. — © Quentin Crisp
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes. — © Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself.
Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — © Joseph Addison
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — © Pierre Corneille
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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