#fortunes

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ↗

— Roman Payne

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Tacitus

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. ↗

— A. C. Benson

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President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them. ↗

— Robert Fisk

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