Ah lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy no authority can revoke and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination but Sancho Panza.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.