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«There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Death,
Happiness,
Life,
Misery,
Revenge
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, enjoyments
«The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.»
«Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves / there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? / are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help / can you face him honestly?).»
Author: James Fenton
| Keywords:
comparison, front line, go to pieces, mortar, set out, tests, The Run, to what extent
«The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| Keywords:
comparison, hypotheses, hypothesis, prediction, predictions, relevant, validity
«My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
comparison, infinitely small, The Power of Darkness
«There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Losing,
Trying
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, succeeding
«Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.»
«The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
comparison, conservation, done for, forests, industry, insignificant, in general, production, shown
«Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.»
«To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any hono»
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