Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“If we let the drama of others’ lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.… — Pierre Charron 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
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
![“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.” quote by Xunzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbf/xunzi-35969_avoiding_misery-is-evil-quarreling-a-misfortune-t_3116798.jpg)
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