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“Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes Source: Fables (V, 4, 12)
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“I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes Source: Fables (V, 4, 12)
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“As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat,
And none could be unhappy but the Great.”
Nicholas Rowe Quotes Source: The Fair Penitent--Prologue (l. 3)
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“Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
[Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Procidentia (IV)
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“There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been
unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
[Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non
licuit enim illi se experiri.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Providentia (III)
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“There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate
misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it
arrives!
[Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae
ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (XCVIII)
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“When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
[Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Hercules Furens (463)
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“The worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (Edgar at IV, i)
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“Such a house broke?
So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not
One friend to take his fortune by the arm
And go along with him?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (First Servant at IV, ii)
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“Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.”
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“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
Aesop Quotes |
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“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
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“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
Plato Quotes |
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“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes |
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“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
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“A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
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