“To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.”
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Source: Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)
Source: Silent Spring
“True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
Source: The Prince
Source: Meditations
Source: The affluent society
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“Everybody has their days of misfortune.”
Source: An Old-fashioned Girl
“Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
“We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.”
Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues
Source: War and the Iliad
“We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!”
Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)
Source: The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance
“The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
Source: This Business of Living
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.”
Source: The Fables of Aesop
Source: A diary of my times
“Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.”
Source: Tristes Tropiques
“One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.”
Source: The Thesmophoriazusae
Source: The Comedies of Aristophanes: Preface. The clouds. The wasps. The discat turned gentleman
“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”