Virgil
Poet
"I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched."
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Wretched
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?"
Barry Hannah
Author
"The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl."
Virgil
Poet
"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched"
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries."
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"To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy."
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"It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched."
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"He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity."
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"If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched."
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"We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are."
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"Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not."
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"Wretched un-idea'd girls."
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"Fear drives the wretched to prayer"
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"O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!"
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"Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so."
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"We men are wretched things."
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