#misfortune

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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