Life Quote by Thomas Sprat

“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.”

— Riyana Baboo

“Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from trifles springs– Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence A…

— Emily Eden

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and…

— Hannah More

There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to…

— Samuel Johnson

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

— Bertrand Russell

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must…

— Marquis de Sade

“How do I avoid dullness, folly, and gross acts of excess? How do I distinguish cogent acts of survival from random acts of inanity?…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of…

— Guru Nanak

“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division of existence.…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even…

— Anonymous

“The deep darkness of good-natured humans, which causes the noble things of humanity to spoil—the affection for a worn-out, grimy lifestyle, the quarrels between…

— Sakyo Komatsu