Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Sympathy

No man limps because another is hurt.Danish.

One does not feel three hundred blows on another’s back.Servian.

Other men’s ills hang by a hair.Don Quixote.

Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the rich there is consolation.Benjamin Disraeli.