Easy Quote by George Santayana

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in…

— Blaise Pascal

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“..There were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.”

— R.A. Salvatore

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly…

— Marisha Pessl

“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man…

— Victor Hugo

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”

— Dante Alighieri

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

— Anwar Sadat

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from…

— Dante Alighieri

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

“Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another…

— Elle Lothlorien

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and…

— Emile Zola

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them…

— Dante Alighieri