“I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”
Part I Section XIV
Compare: Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, xv: "In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
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Anglo-Irish statesman 1729–1797Related quotes
“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 54
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980) American critic and writer
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 76.
“Never find your delight in another's misfortune.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 467
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui.
Maxim 19.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here.”
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) British physicist
Raymond, p. 375 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=417 <br class="br">Raymond, or Life and Death (1916) <br class="br">Context: I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here. It may said, you cannot be sure as you are of sensory experience. I say I can. A physicist is never limited to direct sensory impressions, he has to deal with a multitude of conceptions and things for which he has no physical organ....
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Letter to Lord Somers (26 September 1831) on the Reform Bill, quoted in J. R. M. Butler, The Passing of the Great Reform Bill (London: Longmans Green & Co., 1914), p. 255.
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