#wretched

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ↗

— Lucius Accius

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

— Sophocles

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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ↗

— Virgil

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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ↗

— Simone Weil

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We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ↗

— John McCain

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