Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that though full of a thousand reasons for weariness the least thing such as playing billiards or hitting a ball is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

How sick one gets of being 'good ' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you o Liberty do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you but win you.

Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.