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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – Leonardo Da VinciRate it:
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. – VirgilRate it:
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. – Titus Maccius PlautusRate it:
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. – HomerRate it:
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. – William ShakespeareRate it:
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. – William ShakespeareRate it:
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. – Publilius SyrusRate it:
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. – W. Somerset MaughamRate it:
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) – Lucius Accius TelephusRate it:
From day one, the wretched Washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic election. They're trying, they're not getting very far. They want to erase your vote like it never existed. They want to erase your voice and they want to erase your future, but they will fail, because in America the people rule again, this is nothing but a partisan witch hunt, sabotage. – Donald TrumpRate it:
If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort?he is not so wretched as he deserves. – R ChamberlainRate it:
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower. – J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)Rate it:
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) – Lucius Accius, TelephusRate it:
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. – George LucasRate it:
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. – Louis CelineRate it:
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth! – Edith WhartonRate it:
The situation is wretched. – Interim Migration Minister Yannis MouzalasRate it:
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – HomerRate it:
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – Homer, The IliadRate it:
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. – Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life. – Yiddish ProverbRate it:
We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty. – Marvin CooleyRate it:
We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy? – La FontaineRate it:
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship. – Marie DresslerRate it:

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

– Leonardo Da VinciRate it:

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

– VirgilRate it:

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

– Titus Maccius PlautusRate it:

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

– HomerRate it:

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

– William ShakespeareRate it:

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

– William ShakespeareRate it:

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

– Publilius SyrusRate it:

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

– W. Somerset MaughamRate it:

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)

– Lucius Accius TelephusRate it:

From day one, the wretched Washington swamp has been trying to nullify the results of a truly great and democratic election. They're trying, they're not getting very far. They want to erase your vote like it never existed. They want to erase your voice and they want to erase your future, but they will fail, because in America the people rule again, this is nothing but a partisan witch hunt, sabotage.

– Donald TrumpRate it:

If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort?he is not so wretched as he deserves.

– R ChamberlainRate it:

In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.

– J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)Rate it:

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)

– Lucius Accius, TelephusRate it:

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

– George LucasRate it:

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

– Louis CelineRate it:

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

– Edith WhartonRate it:

The situation is wretched.

– Interim Migration Minister Yannis MouzalasRate it:

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

– HomerRate it:

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

– Homer, The IliadRate it:

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

– Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

– Yiddish ProverbRate it:

We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.

– Marvin CooleyRate it:

We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy?

– La FontaineRate it:

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

– Marie DresslerRate it:

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