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«Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse»
«Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting»
Author: Aeschylus
(Dramatist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blow, blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, glitter, misfortune, paint a picture, prosperous, sponge, Sponges, wet
«If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
calamity, fell, Gladstone, misfortune, pulled, Thames
«Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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fortune, good fortune, Here is, misfortune, tempts, This is a, worthily
«In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?»
Author: Euripides
| Keywords:
misfortune
«Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides»
«A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
as well, conceal, especially, misfortune, most especially
«Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Cleverness,
Evil,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
accompanied, excessive, misfortune, training
«Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
deprived, endured, equanimity, higher power, lowest, misfortune, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Overcoming
| Keywords:
acceptance, consequences, first step, misfortune, overcoming
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