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“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it—which is what matters most.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“In a way, it's nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.” Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.” Albert Camus, The Plague

“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, Antigone

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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