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If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. – Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. – Joseph Conrad, Nostromo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. – Shelley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. – Karl Popper	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. – Dante Alighieri	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. – Russell Baker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. – Baslo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills. – Anthony Brandt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. – Charles Robert Darwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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