Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune. — William Joyce Copy Share Image
“men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.] — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it. — Mignon G. Eberhart Copy Share Image
How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image