"... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)"
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"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
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"As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery."
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"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."
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"What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?"
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"He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery."
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"Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living."
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"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."
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"Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves."
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"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
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"There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time."
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"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me."
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"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."
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"Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue."
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"The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown."
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"Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted."
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"Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery."
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"Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy."
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"Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home."
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