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Misfortunes Quotes

1.
To have a right estimate of a man's character,
we must see him in misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Accurately gauge a person's nature by observing them in adversity.
Authors on Misfortunes Quotes: Publilius Syrus Honore de Balzac Louisa May Alcott Albert Camus Pierre Corneille Christopher Paolini Marshall Sylver George Herbert Shinjo Ito Benjamin Franklin Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nicholas Ling William Graham Sumner Franz Kafka Robert G. Allen Anne Frank Cormac McCarthy Mary Norton Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Simon Armitage Aesop Jefferson Davis Margaret Mitchell Victor Hugo Philip Sidney Norm MacDonald Napoleon Bonaparte Charlotte Charke Mason Cooley Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Solomon Ibn Gabirol Aeschylus Jeffrey R. Holland
2.
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus

Whoever contributes nothing, reaps nothing. The greatest tragedy is not to be unappreciated, but not to appreciate.
3.
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Nicholas Ling

5.
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
Pliny the Elder

6.
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
Bias of Priene

7.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
Pierre Corneille

8.
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Michel de Montaigne

9.
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
Pierre Corneille

10.
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
Aesop

11.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll

12.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracian

13.
Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
William Hazlitt

14.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka

15.
Misfortune may become fortune through patience.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

16.
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
Cormac McCarthy

17.
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Soren Kierkegaard

18.
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces,
comme le malheur e teint nos vertus.
Happiness engulfs our strength,
just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
Honore de Balzac

19.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Teresa of Avila

20.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
William Faulkner

21.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides

22.
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

23.
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

24.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Jonathan Swift

25.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
George Herbert

26.
See your misfortunes as blessings.
Marshall Sylver

27.
Misfortunes never come singly.
Anne Frank

28.
Misfortunes make us wise.
Mary Norton

29.
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
Abraham Lincoln

30.
Every war is a national misfortune.
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

31.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
Publilius Syrus

32.
No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
Jeffrey R. Holland

33.
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
Charles Caleb Colton

34.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
Mahatma Gandhi

35.
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
Publilius Syrus

36.
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
George MacDonald

37.
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
John Dryden

38.
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
George Stillman Hillard

39.
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
Thomas de Quincey

40.
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
Lawrence Durrell

41.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
Publilius Syrus

42.
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
Victor Hugo

43.
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

44.
We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
Gustave Flaubert

45.
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.
Shinjo Ito

46.
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
Louisa May Alcott

47.
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan

48.
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine

49.
We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.
Charles Portis

50.
Misfortunes should always be expected.
Samuel Johnson