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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men read more
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
The heart was made to be broken
The heart was made to be broken
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have read more
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's read more
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
