Suspicion is most often useless pain.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the vis inertiae and give elasticity to the muscles. . . .
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
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