Quotes on Misfortunes Of Others

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.