72 Quotations with Misfortunes.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to other ...

- 2. Charles Dickens: Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past ...

- 3. William Cobbett: Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you ...

- 4. Aesop: Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

- 5. Lucius Accius: Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
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- 6. Jean De La Bruyere: All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...

- 8. Oscar Wilde: Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

- 9. Voltaire: Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

- 10. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

- 11. Seneca: Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly.

- 12. Titus Livius: Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

- 13. Francis Bacon: Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

- 14. Kenneth Hildebrand: The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down down by blam ...

- 15. Edward Gibbon: History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, an ...

- 16. W. Somerset Maugham: Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a ...

- 17. Joseph Addison: A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutio ...

- 18. Jean Jacques Rousseau: All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

- 19. Virgil: Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortu ...

- 20. Thomas Jefferson: Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortu ...

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