A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
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