"It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering"
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"Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering."
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"They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry."
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"It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed."
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"There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully."
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"It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others."
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"Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love."
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"There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends."
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"As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone."
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"Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter."
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"In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself."
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"Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us."
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"I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration."
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"If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins."
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"I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering."
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"The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours."
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"I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it."
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."
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"What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers."
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"Your soul suffers if you live superficially."
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