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No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have no Friend in the world, and from the restlessness of my destiny I never can acquire one. Fain would I lay down my miserable life, for I envy those who enjoy the quiet of the Grave: But Death eludes me, and flies from my embrace. In vain do I throw myself in the way of danger. I plunge into the Ocean; The Waves throw me back with abhorrence upon the shore: I rush into fire; The flames recoil at my approach: I oppose myself to the fury of Banditti; Their swords become blunted, and break against my breast: The hungry Tiger shudders at my approach, and the Alligator flies from a Monster more horrible than itself. God has set his seal upon me, and all his Creatures respect this fatal mark!


Matthew Gregory Lewis


#fate #frustration #good-fortune #grief #immortality

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#happiness #life #misfortune #life

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.


Aeschylus


#blow #blurred #comes #fair #glitter

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.


Aeschylus


#gods #man #mark #misfortune #rail

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.


Aesop


#derive #misfortunes #others #unhappy

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

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.


Ferdinand Lassalle


#france #i #i see #misfortune #only

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.


Sam Levenson


#beast #child #children #cry #mensch

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.


George Mason


#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened






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