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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Misfortune was my god.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.