The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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