#fortunes

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ↗

— Aesop

#better #misfortunes #others #own #than

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. ↗

— Euripides

#gain #ignorance #misfortunes

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

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#hang #like #long #made #shirts

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

[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

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#early #fortunes #grounds #hacker #had

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#blame #condemn #disaster #fantasize #feel

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#especially #misfortunes #others #quickly #shed