No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
- Victor Hugo
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.
- Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
- Victor Hugo
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
- Herbert George Wells
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry Truman
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made
- Sophocles
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
- Bion
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- Sophocles
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Bible
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
- William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
- William Shakespeare