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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Quote by Aristotel about bad luck

Misfortune was my god.

Quote by Arthur Rimbaud about bad luck, god

There is no highest suffering than the remembrance of lost happiness, during misfortune.

Quote by Dante Alighieri about pain, suffering, happiness

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Quote by Francis Bacon about bitter, children

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Quote by Lord Acton about moral, consequences, morality, wealth, society, man, rightness

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about wife, mother, man

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Quote by Russell Baker about events, humanity, pleasure, rest, reason, world

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Quote by Joseph Addison about politics, influence, day

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Quote by Aeschylus about life, painting, man

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about happiness, bad luck, bad

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Quote by Aesop about wisdom

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Quote by Aesop about philosophy

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, deeds, weakness, poverty, life, old, olderness

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune. ''

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about bitter, wealth, rules, future, good, good luck, contentment

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Quote by Charles Dickens about present, man, past

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about rightness

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Quote by Herodotus about influence, human imperfections, man

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about purity, nothing, man