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“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune” William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, Antigone
“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“As is the case with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“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
“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
“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
“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“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
“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
“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
“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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