There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us. – Proverb Category: Fortune
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures. – Proverb Category: Fortune
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. – Charles V Category: Fortune
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. – Epicurus Category: Fortune
When youre famous, you dont get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you dont see the real people. – Cass Elliot Category: famous
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Self
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. – Blaise Pascal Category: great
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank Category: good
