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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.
The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have read more
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus read more
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]
The heart was made to be broken
The heart was made to be broken
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes read more
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
