Never find delight in another's misfortune.
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.
As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.
. . . But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.