#fortunes

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

#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#avoided #composed #misfortunes

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

— Voltaire

#history #indeed #misfortunes #more #nothing

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ↗

— George Farquhar

#fortunes #get #government #heads #hearts

President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#america #best #built #decisions #doing

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#facts #fortunes #losing #many #means

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concubine #devotion #dignity #freedom #honor

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. ↗

— Mo Yan

#fortunes #hunger #loneliness #were

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fellows #having #misfortunes #thought #too