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contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.
A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.
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.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.