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


Aeschylus


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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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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.


Francis Bacon


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What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.


Georges Bizet


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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


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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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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.


Blaise Pascal


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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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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.


Adolf Hitler


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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.


John Webster


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