"Truth suffers, but never dies."
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"If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to."
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"Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd."
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"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul."
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"If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."
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"But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love."
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"Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it."
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"It is better to suffer injustice than to do it."
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"Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation."
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"My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."
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"Rather suffer an injustice than commit one."
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"Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective."
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"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."
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"It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice."
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"Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life."
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"I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth."
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"Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering"
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"When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."
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"The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die."
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