Easy Quote by George Santayana

The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is…

— Simone Weil

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

— Cesare Pavese

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is…

— Boethius

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

— H. L. Mencken

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

— Martial

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

— Anonymous

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

— Seneca the Younger

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

— Baltasar Gracian

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

— Bill Johnson

To exaggerate is to weaken.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

— Vladimir Lenin