#misfortunes

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#could #help #heroic #industrious #misfortunes

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#blame #condemn #disaster #fantasize #feel

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

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

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

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#befall #boy #bring #consequence #few

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill