
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 323.
Source: The Book Thief
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 323.
“I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.”
Time Patrol (p. 42)
Time Patrol
“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.”
Source: Anna Karenina
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”
Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépend pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune.
Maxim 61.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)