#misfortunes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

#contented #depart #equal #everyone #heap

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #faring #forget #how #misfortunes

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#crimes #follies #indeed #little #mankind

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fellows #having #misfortunes #thought #too

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. ↗

— Titus Livius

#men #misfortunes #recognize #slower #than

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cheer #come #good #good cheer #hardest

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#misfortunes #women #women

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#comes #dark #days #either #everything