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“If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Order Fall Share Mankind Species Casts Unhappy Division Misfortunes Possessed

Author:Socrates

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

Littles War History Mankind Crime Prison Folly Misfortunes Historian Tourism Register Roman Empire Great History

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

Littles Earth Order History Mankind Crime Materials Advantage Folly Misfortunes Reign Tranquility Register Roman Empire

Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”

“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Stills Whole Eye Form Fate Mankind Fields Awful Misfortunes Pessimism Affliction Consolation Prey Lambs Butchers Plight

Book:Studies in Pessimism

Source: Studies in Pessimism