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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

— Simone Weil

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

— Lord Melbourne

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

— Dalai Lama

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

— George Orwell

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

— Theodor Adorno

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

— John Calvin

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

— Joseph Addison

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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