Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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.
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