#miseries

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#capitalism #equal #inherent #miseries #sharing

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#been #evils #extensively #faith #had

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

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