.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Past memories strobed before him, flashes of joy blackened by the present. Reality teased, then beckoned, home likewise. Confusion dimmed, the answer… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head… — Jonah Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
