Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
It is from the level of calamities ... That we learn impressive and useful lessons.
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
