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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ↗

— Plautus

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As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. ↗

— Empedocles

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. ↗

— Sophocles

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