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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.