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24 quotesMen often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Adversity
Aesop
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Misfortunes
Aesop
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Loneliness
Jean De La Bruyere
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We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Fate
Benjamin Disraeli
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Ignorance
Euripides
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Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Misfortunes
Thomas Fuller
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History and Historians
Edward Gibbon
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Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Uncategorised
Herodotus
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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Labor
Robert Herrick
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Money
Napoleon Hill
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Strength
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Anxiety
James Russell Lowell
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Arrogance
Alexander Pope
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Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Change
Portuguese Proverb
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
Work
John Ray
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Misfortunes
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Caution
Publilius Syrus
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Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
Misfortunes
Publilius Syrus
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Misfortunes
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Risk
Virgil
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
History and Historians
Voltaire
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Coward and Cowardice
Voltaire
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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun