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calamities

«The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie»
«The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place»
«Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: calamities, mocks
«Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.»
«Who is there who, having become rich, has not become proud? What licentious man has put an end to his calamities? What man in this world has not been overcome by a woman? Who is always loved by the king?»
«The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.»
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
«The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration»

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