#misfortune

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#days #fine #foggy #i #little

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

#all things #bad #cleverness #evil #excessive

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#in-depth #into #misfortune #only #overview

A man endures misfortune without complaint. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#endures #man #misfortune #without

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#convention #fool #greatest #man #misfortune

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back. ↗

— Junior Seau

#excuses #full #i #life #looking

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#longer #loved #misfortune

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#evil #great #great evil #misfortune #prompt

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#devastating #lot #misfortune #more #sudden