#misfortunes

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#children #labours #make #misfortunes #more

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concubine #devotion #dignity #freedom #honor

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

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #misfortunes #only #register

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cloudy #constitutions #day #great #influence

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

— Pierre Bayle

#history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing