#wretch

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

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Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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

— Lucius Accius

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

— Andrew Carnegie

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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ↗

— Beth Henley

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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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The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#wisdom #wretchedness #education