We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
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