#misfortune

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#incapable #misfortune #solitude

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#especially #misfortunes #others #quickly #shed

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. ↗

— Epicurus

#fool #misfortune #prosperity #than #wise

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. ↗

— Epicurus

#directed #greatest #highest #his #interests

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

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither

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

#getting #killed #misfortunes #much #off

Misfortune was my god. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#misfortune

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#curse #destiny #divine-intervention #fate #fortune

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ↗

— William McFee

#doing #ever #guarantee #misfortune #people

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#control #destroy #enemy #freedoms #greatest