Medicine Quote by French Proverb

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

— Seneca the Younger

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.…

— Thomas Mann

“When people go through bitter situations, they get a better understanding of bitter situations. They get good insight into bitterness, and they get to…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

— William Hazlitt

“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

— Leo Tolstoy

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

Every person faces difficulties throughout their life. Despite our circumstances, and with God's help, we can choose to be better instead of being bitter.

— Anonymous

Misfortunes make us wise.

— Mary Norton

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

— Will Durant

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to…

— Simone Weil