Democritus
Philosopher
"Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate."
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Unfortunate
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Muhammad al-Bukhari
Hadith Scholar
"It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise."
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Novelist
"It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide."
Democritus
Philosopher
"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."
Virgil
Poet
"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."
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"We become innocent when we are unfortunate."
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"I have an unfortunate personality."
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"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
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"The unfortunate are always egotistical."
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"The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]"
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"The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them."
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"Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press."
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"The world is more like it is now then it ever has before."
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"...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables"
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"A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man."
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"Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate."
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"Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace."
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"The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off."
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"People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are."
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"If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely."
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"By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate."
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"I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s."
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"She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition."
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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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"It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound."
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