#misfortunes

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#avoided #composed #misfortunes

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

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

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

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

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #misfortunes #only #register

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#every #every man #man #many #men

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more