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Pain Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
- Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
- A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are…
- 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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