The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the… — Catullus Copy Share Image
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth… — Anna Cora Mowatt Copy Share Image
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
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