Misfortune Quotes
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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
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One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
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This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
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For marriage is the worst misfortune!
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You are one of those obsessed demoniacal creatures who ought to be avoided at all costs; they bring misfortune into the lives of others; they ruin the lives of others. The real good people are humble and silent (like your Kitty is). But beware, God sees all vanity and pride and you cannot fool him.
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
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... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
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.. I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.
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I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
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I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
