“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 995
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.”
La foi est la consolation des misérables et la terreur des heureux.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.
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