Misfortunes make us wise. [ Proverb ]

Keep your misfortunes to yourself. [ Hazlitt ]

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. [ Proverb ]

Misfortunes should always be expected. [ Johnson ]

Folly always deserves its misfortunes. [ A. Preault ]

Misfortunes make men talk loquaciously. [ Appian ]

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. [ Lady Blessington ]

Misfortunes when asleep are not to be awakened. [ Proverb ]

Through manifold misfortunes, and so many perils. [ Virgil ]

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. [ Rousseau ]

History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes. [ Voltaire ]

Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life. [ Seneca ]

Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood. [ Proverb ]

Misfortunes that cannot be avoided must be sweetened. [ Proverb ]

Every mortal is relieved by speaking of his misfortunes. [ A. Chenier ]

Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads. [ Proverb ]

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power. [ George S. Hillard ]

See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. [ Goldsmith ]

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue. [ William Shakespeare ]

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. [ Orville Dewey ]

Yield not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to meet them. [ Virgil ]

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. [ Publius Syrius ]

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

There is still enough to satisfy one in spite of all misfortunes. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who is the cause of his own misfortunes may bewail them himself. [ Italian Proverb ]

It is good to see in the misfortunes of others what we should avoid. [ Syrus ]

Bear and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. [ Ovid ]

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Rejoicing at men's misfortunes is, in a degree, dancing at their funerals. [ Proverb ]

One of the greatest misfortunes of worthy people is that they are cowards. [ Voltaire ]

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. [ Goldsmith ]

The gods have attached almost as many misfortunes to liberty as to servitude. [ Montesquieu ]

Philosophy teaches us to bear with calmness - the misfortunes of our friends.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. [ Washington Irving ]

After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. [ Balzac ]

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. [ Sterne ]

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. [ Colton ]

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. [ T. Jefferson ]

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. [ Stanislaus ]

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. [ Aaron Hill ]

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. [ Virgil ]

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. [ Chapin ]

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. [ Lowell ]

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. [ Burke ]

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

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. [ Seneca ]

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. [ Tacitus ]

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? [ Seneca ]

Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which sustains and finally conquers misfortunes, and the ordeal refines while it chastens. [ Aughey ]

Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. [ Bacon ]

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [ Melmoth ]

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah ! there is the sting of life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. [ Voltaire ]

If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. [ Solon ]

No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. [ From the French ]

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [ Charron ]

Negligence or Neglect? Negligence is a habit; neglect is an act. The following sentences illustrate the difference in the meaning of these words:
His negligence was the source of all his misfortunes,
By his neglect he lost the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]

The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]