It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.
