#misery

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dividing #doubling #grief #happiness #improves

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

#again #build #confusion #death #foundation

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#deal #life #misery #others #overwhelmed

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. ↗

— Paul Merton

#endured #give #happiest #i #indication

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#for the people #great #hunger #misery #people

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#just #know #meant #misery #show

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#because #does #kill #love #misery