A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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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.
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The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
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History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart
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We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than t...
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's good...
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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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.
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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.
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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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