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“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

Pain Pleasure Wise Philosophical Aim Secure Pain And Pleasure Pleasures Of Life Avoiding Pain Pleasure And Happiness Pain Pleasure

Author:Aristotle

“I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.”

Pain Wish Wise Lays Brave Graves Coffins

Book:Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches

Source: Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches

“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.”

Ifs Men Pain Causes Walks Watches Path Wise Embrace Free Will Humankind

Book:Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three

Source: Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three

“Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.”

Pain Spirit Hate Wise Buddhism Buddhist Planes Divides Etiquette Wise Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.”

Might Pain Suffering Pleasure Wise Youth Being Wise

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.”

“They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.”

People World Way Kind Pain Suffering Three Mistake Wise One Way Spares Wise People

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The wise with hope support the pains of life.”

Pain Support Wise

Author:Euripides

“Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.”

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.”

World Book Different Helping Seems Pain Wise Bears Thousand Misery Clinic Psychiatric

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.”

Pain Joy Wise Cry Tears Endure Healer Cry Tears

Author:Erykah Badu

“Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.”

Art Pain Too Much Wise Sorrow Anger Presses Tongue Pity Tied Being Wise Disdain Tongue Tied

Book:Sonnets

Source: Sonnets

“Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!”

May Pain Grief Wise Gains Glad Gods Will Thee Forgetfulness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)