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Suffering

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. - Plato.


Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. - Plato.


One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. – Socrates.


Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. – Aristotle.


Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. - Plato.


The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato.


There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity. – Anne Frank.


This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. – Aristotle.


To perceive is to suffer. – Aristotle.


To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. - Plato.


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