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The Renaissance6 quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. — William Shakespeare · 1616When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions. — William Shakespeare · 1616It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd,
To think their dolour others have endur'd. — William Shakespeare · 1594Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. — William Shakespeare · 1594Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. — William Shakespeare · 1594For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently. — William Shakespeare · 1600Ancient World3 quotes
The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCThe Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of suffering is this: It is simply the Noble Eightfold Path, namely right view; right thought; right speech; right action; right livelihood; right effort; right mindfulness; right concentration. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCBirth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering. — Gautama Buddha · 510 BCClassical antiquity1 quote
The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain. — Aristotle · 322 BCMiddle Ages1 quote
There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. — Dante Alighieri · 1321