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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

— Aesop

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Martin Seligman

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your…

— Clarence Thomas

“As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable…

— Guy Finley

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

— Voltaire

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the…

— Thomas Mann

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

Hardship And Misfortune May Be Unpleasant, But They Can Sometimes Have A Beneficial Effect On The Character, Especially When People Fail To Appreciate The…

— Pacifiersucker

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

— Dalai Lama