#misfortune

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #faring #forget #how #misfortunes

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#clock #during #fortune #frightened #go

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fellows #having #misfortunes #thought #too

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. ↗

— Titus Livius

#men #misfortunes #recognize #slower #than

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#himself #misfortune #right #sorry #strikes

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#misfortunes #women #women

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. ↗

— Paul Valery

#brake #great #kind #man #mask

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary