“ The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ”
- Philip Massinger- Copy
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“ The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. ”
- Stefan Kanfer- Copy
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“ All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
- Colin Wilson- Copy
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“ Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. ”
- Toni Cade Bambara- Copy
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“ Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness…is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken… ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current, the clouds folding and unfolding, beyond the horizon when it serves, or lose our ventures. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ The Americans say that we are ungrateful — but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for — for murdering our fathers and mothers? — Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families… ”
- David Walker- Copy
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“ Anxiety is the poison of humans life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in dis-appointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? ”
- Robert Blair- Copy
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“ Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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