Misfortune Quotes
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“We have seen better days.”
“Calamity is man's true touch-stone.”
“Calamitas virtutis occasio est.”
“None think the great unhappy, but the great.”
“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”
“Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.”
“It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.”
“Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.”
“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.”
“A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.”
“Bonum est fugienda adspicere in alieno malo.”
“MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.”
“I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.”
“There is something very amusing in the misfortunes of others.”
“Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.”
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
“O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.”
“Conscientia rectæ voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.”
“As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat,
And none could be unhappy but the Great.”