“With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.”

Source: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Source: The Will to Power

Bert Williams, The comic side of trouble, January 1918, American Magazine 85, 33-34, 58-60. Quoted in From traveling show to vaudeville: theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910, 2003, Robert M. Lewis, JHU Press, ISBN 0801870879.

As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.

The Sayings of the Wise (1555)

Reg. v. Swendsen (1702), 14 How. St. Tr. 596.

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Context: It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone else without them. For unfortunate men, when they preserve their normality in their misfortune — that is to say, when they endeavor to persist in their own being — prefer misfortune to non-existence. For myself I can say that when a as a youth, and even as a child, I remained unmoved when shown the most moving pictures of hell, for even then nothing appeared to me quite so horrible as nothingness itself. It was a furious hunger of being that possessed me, an appetite for divinity, as one of our ascetics [San Juan de los Angeles] has put it.

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

In re Brandreth (1891), L. J. 60 Q. B. D. 504.