The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
—Voltaire
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
—Voltaire
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
—Blaise Pascal
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
—Charles Dickens
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
—Seneca
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
—Plato
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent.
Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
—Socrates
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
—Aristotle
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens