Misfortunes Quote by Philip James Bailey

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

— Anonymous

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

— Luc de Clapiers

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he…

— Seneca the Younger

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

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— William Hazlitt

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by…

— Christine de Pizan

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

— Anonymous

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

— Bias of Priene