"Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?"
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"... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle."
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"So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled."
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"A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering."
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"The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world."
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"It is the lot of man to suffer."
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"The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains."
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"Those who suffer most cry out the least."
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"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."
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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."
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"We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering."
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"The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is."
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"This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed."
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"I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved."
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"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."
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"We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth."
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"There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first."
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"Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity."
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"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"
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