The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.