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• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the… — Aeschylus
• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese
• War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. — Thomas Jefferson
• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley
• One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it… — Simone Weil
• A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison
• One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,… — Jeff Cooper
• I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes… — Thomas Jefferson
• In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. — Mark Twain
• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind;… — John Angell James

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