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| Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment. |
| Will Rogers |
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| Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of others |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. |
| Socrates |
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| The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. |
| Aristotle |
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| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. |
| Edmund Burke |
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| There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. |
| R. D. Laing |
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| Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. |
| Mark Twain |
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| Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. |
| Ovid |
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| Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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