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“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”

Ifs Might Pain Trouble Ought Deceiving Disguise

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Stills Pain Water Fire Too Much Events Ought Cost Preserves Scepticism

Author:David Hume

“We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.”

Ifs Giving Sometimes Use Pain Friends Ought Benefits Musician Medicine Patient Improvement Preserves Pleasant Chords Biting

Book:Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

Source: Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

“People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.”

Source: Put out the light

“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”

People Men Trying Body Pain Science Religion Answers Animal Design Ought Sorrow Behavior Concern Cells Faster Behave Telling The Truth Contrast Airplane Quests Molecules Insulin

Author:Warren Weaver

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

“He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.”

Mind Firsts Pain Missing Ought Concerned

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.”

Feels Hands Christian Pain Pleasure Ought Midst Receiving Affliction

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

People Thinking May Made Pain Young Evil Virtue Example Ought Reconcile Sparta Bodily Pain

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

Pain Sports Ought Treats Cruelty Distress Insects Amusement Wanton Cuckoos

Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works