#wretch

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#happy #ill #maketh #mind #poor

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. ↗

— David Simon

#hero #i #man #many #newspaperman

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

— Logan P. Smith

#being rich #live #people #rich #rich people

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. ↗

— Tacitus

#against #although #happy #many #more

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. ↗

— Walter Scott

#death-and-dying #pride #walter-scott #wretch #death

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#forgets #happens #memory #remembers #them

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

— Empedocles

#beliefs #dark #divine #gained #gods

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#manifold #misery #wretchedness

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ↗

— Hannah More

#cannot #decreed #digs #fatigued #fed