Conditions Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”

— Benjamin Franklin

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

— Benjamin Franklin

“When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with the wisdom…

— Paul Kropp

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

— William Faulkner

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war,…

— Blaise Pascal

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable…

— Thomas Mann

“The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those of a…

— Thomas Mann

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war,…

— Blaise Pascal

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

— Anonymous