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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length?