“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering”
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“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering”
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes”
“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps”
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted”
“The devil's most devilish when respectable”
“World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain”
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction”
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less”
“Error is discipline through which we advance”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”
“Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a man”
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem”
“Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished”
“One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty”
“Success in crime always invites to worse deeds”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact”
“How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?”