#fortunes

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

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Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! ↗

— John Dryden

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. ↗

— Euripides

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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

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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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