Misfortune

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune."

"A tendancy to melancholy - let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault."

"Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune."

"To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

"Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings."

"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune."

"When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."

"It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."