The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes read more

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.