Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle
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 character. Albert Schweitzer
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. Horace
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? Virgil
