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Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above read more
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a read more
He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
[Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
[Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]
I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of read more
It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.
