If we were not all so pitifully and ridiculously constituted, we should be ashamed to be alive.
Pessimist philosophy
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
Strange & Unusual"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured…"
Humorous"The pleasure of life is fleeting; the pain of life is lasting."
Shocking"Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations."
Controversial"The more you leave a man to his own will, the more he will feel his own weakness."
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