Misfortune Quotes
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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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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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
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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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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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.. 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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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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For marriage is the worst misfortune!
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I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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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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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
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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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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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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.
