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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. Socrates

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Alphonse Karr

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

Sophocles

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Barry Humphries

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis de Sade

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Aesop

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Sophocles

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Gideon Welles

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Margaret Cavendish

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

George Mason

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

John Hawley

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Socrates

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

Pierre Laval