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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
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.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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.
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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.
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.
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.
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.
