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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

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

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

Aesop
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis De Sade
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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Alphonse Karr
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire
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We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean De La Bruyere
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I'm glad we came down and fought hard. We had some misfortunes. I thought [the officials] took us out of 103. We came down here thinking that we could win.

Dave Bell
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon
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But misfortunes never come singly.

Wiley Post
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce
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If you have cash, you have options and you can take advantage of the mistakes and misfortunes of others.

Karl Graf
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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)

Lucius Accius
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