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Misfortunes Quotes by Simone Weil
- If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it…
- With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he…
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
More Misfortunes Quotes
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka
- Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to… — William Cobbett
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila