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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
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.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's read more
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid read more
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
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.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
