#misfortune

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#incapable #misfortune #solitude

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#interest #misfortune #others #spread #us

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#cannot #country #despite #destroyed #fate

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ↗

— William McFee

#doing #guarantee #misfortune #right

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#came #hardest #misfortunes #never #these

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#fortune #knocks #misfortune #more #much

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#carelessness #like #looks #lose #may

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

#above #great minds #little #little minds #minds

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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