#wretched

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ↗

— Plato

#ever #injustice #made #more #suffers

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

— Plautus

#guilt #man #mind #more #nothing

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

#during #economic #economically #federal #generates

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#entirely #happy #loved #make #seeks

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#duty #good #only #principles #strong

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #i #like #lives #nonfiction

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