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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.


Aristotle


#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.


Aristotle


#misfortune #really #shows #those #who

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.


Benjamin Disraeli


#between #calamity #difference #dragged #fell

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.


Euripides


#gain #ignorance #misfortunes

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.


Franz Kafka


#imagination #misfortune #quixote

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.


Samuel Johnson


#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

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

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.


Loretta Young


#good #impossible #made #misfortune #posture






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