best consolation misfortune affliction kind thought people a still wor — Arthur Schopenhauer, Suffering World

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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

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Related Topics: pessimism, philosophy, philosophy-of-life

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