Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful in every person that never dies, no matter their misfortunes.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity,… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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