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Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company!
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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
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From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Pensees (1669) -
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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