“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”
“A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature”
“That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs”
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted”
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction”
“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think ”
“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy”
“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else”
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin”
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space”
“A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him consider.”
“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”