Countenance Quote by Boethius

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

— Boethius

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage or even…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

— Matthew Arnold

He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for…

— Ludwig von Mises

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with…

— Don Marquis

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of…

— Samuel Johnson

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

“This ordinarily even-tempered man struck furiously at his heart like some fanatic at prayer, and, assailed by remorse not just for this mistake but…

— Philip Roth