Top Misfortunes Quotes
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Margaret Cavendish
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
Ambrose Bierce 
Giacomo Casanova 
James Russell Lowell 
Quentin Crisp 
W. Somerset Maugham All Misfortunes Quotes
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Margaret Cavendish 
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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
59% of people like this quote
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving
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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
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison
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France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
Pierre Laval
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
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Francois de La RochefoucauldSamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireAmbrose Bierce Aristotle SophoclesFrancis BaconMichel de MontaigneW. Somerset MaughamJoseph Addison VirgilCharles Dickens
Publilius SyrusJean de la BruyereJames Russell Lowell Epictetus Euripides Moliere AesopJean Jacques RousseauWashington Irving SocratesMarquis de SadeQuentin CrispTitus LiviusGiacomo CasanovaEdward Gibbon
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