| "Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune." »William McFee |
| "misfortune shows those who are not really friends." »Aristotle |
| "This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude." »La Bruyere |
| "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." »Plutarch |
| "Never find your delight in another's misfortune." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early." »Anthony Trollope |
| "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." »William James |
| "A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing." »Hesiod |
| "One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph." »Virginia |
| "Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself." »The Hitopadesa |
| "Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity." »Russell Baker |
| "A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about." »Saskya Pandita |
| "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery |
| "Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself." »Claude Roy |
| "Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." »Joseph Addison |
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