| |  | | | | | | | | | | | I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others | | Edmund Burke | | | Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. | | Plato | | | Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes | | Victor Hugo | | | Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to | | Paul Valery | | | Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. | | Dorothy Parker | | | To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and | | Samuel Johnson | | | We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. | | Honore de Balzac | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 7 of 7 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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