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«My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: misfortunes, terrible
«Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Blessings, Misfortune | Keywords: blessings, misfortunes, reflect
«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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: closely, earned, imitate, imitating, misfortunes, resemble, sensitive, vices
«Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: contented, depart, heap, misfortunes, portion, Socrates, whence
«Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: grievance, grievances, misfortunes
«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
Author: French Proverb | About: Adversity, Medicine, Misfortune, Morality | Keywords: act as, ameliorates, ameliorating, bitters, chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, disagreeable, disposition, misfortunes, stomach
«People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: competition, misfortunes
«Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: bear, equanimity, misfortunes, philosophy, teaches
«Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: an account, hearer, misfortunes, permitted, pleasantly, shortens
«One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: chief, Chiefs, cowardly, honest, misfortunes, The Chief
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