“There is something beautiful in every person that never dies, no matter their misfortunes.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. — Nancy Pickard 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
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
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
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
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
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
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The observation of the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments, or to admire… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a… — Kate Forsyth 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
