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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma Gandhi
Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
Proverb
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Don Marquis
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country
C.S. Lewis
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Thomas Fuller
For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Thomas Jefferson
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
Publilius Syrus
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Mark Twain
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Johann von Goethe
