Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. — Virgil Copy Share Image
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. — Henrietta Szold Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's… — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Even on guitars I've had misfortunes. I never used to clip the strings on my guitar and then one day I accidentally… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an… — Laozi Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
