#wretched

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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

— Tacitus

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

#friendship #greatness #knows #men #private

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

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

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

— Fridtjof Nansen

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. ↗

— Aeschylus

#better #born #death #easier #fare

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

— Lucius Accius

#fame #his #indeed #makes #man

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beautiful #beautiful art #profession #wretched

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. ↗

— William Bligh

#anywhere #class #common #degree #lower