"To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself."
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"There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness."
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"God has commanded Time to console the afflicted."
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"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room."
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"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."
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"It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent."
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"Unhappy people are dangerous."
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"It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated."
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"Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are."
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"The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband."
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"Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness."
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"Misery generates hate."
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"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."
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"People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are."
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"Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end."
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"The only unhappiness is not to love God."
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"But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!"
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"It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility"
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"Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid."
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"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy."
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