All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end… — Victor Hugo 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
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself! — Gustave Flaubert 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 not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
