Quote #50

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
  2. A great profusion of things, which are splendid or valuable in themselves, is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very freq…
  3. Custom reconciles us to every thing.
  4. It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to f…
  5. The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pai…
  6. The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another l…
  7. The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.
  8. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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