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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

— Thomas Fuller

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

— Irving Babbitt

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

— George Bernard Shaw

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

— Henry David Thoreau

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

— Plato

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

— Charles Spurgeon

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

— Confucius

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

— Aesop

✗Opposing Perspectives

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

— George Bernard Shaw

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

— Charles Horton Cooley