“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
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune”
Swedish Proverb
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Charles Dickens
“We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism”
Robert Hughes
“It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.”
Charles Simmons
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle
