Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
For us political activists and candidates the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
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.
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.
History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
All the ills of mankind all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books all the political blunders all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!
The question of armaments whether on land or sea is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.