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

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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• 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

  Failure, Men, Misery

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 31 (1780)

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• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Children, Reality

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Parents and Children'

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• The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Intentions, Consciousness, Solace

  "Epistles", V. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 518-19,

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

  Madame de Stael

  Yoke, Bows, Rebellious

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• We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

  Honore de Balzac

  Exaggeration Is, Literature, Bad Grades

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• Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life Is Short, Lasts

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  Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin

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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.

  Aristotle

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  James Russell Lowell (1892). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Misfortunes never come singly.

  Anne Frank

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.57, GENERAL PRESS

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• One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Real, Sin, Shame

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 76, 1954.

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• Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

  Aesop

  Adversity, Men, Littles

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
  [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

  Pierre Corneille

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• Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

  Cesare Pavese

  Intelligent, Men, Fool

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Names, Volunteer

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Encouragement, Insightful

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• Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

  Honore de Balzac

  Voice, Soul, Desert

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• The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

  Bias of Priene

  Able, Bears

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• The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

  Orville Dewey

  Sympathy, Parades, Command

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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

  Euripides

  Ignorance, Adversity, Ignorant

  "Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

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

  Tacitus

  Bears, Pleasure, Difficult

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• I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Christian, Adversity

  "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1727)

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• 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

  Life, Education, Teaching

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.499, Lulu.com

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• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Schubert

  Wise, Men, Fool

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