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«The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.»
«The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.»
«The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing»
Author: Herodotus | About: Pain | Keywords: insight, suffer
«Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: aim, deeds, greatly, suffer
«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»
«To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.»
«War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.»
«The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.»
«The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.»
«The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.»