Misfortunes Quotes
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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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.
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That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.
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In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love – if once one has ever fallen in.
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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
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Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.
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The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
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If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
