Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

Seneca
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  1. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him... - Paulo Coelho

  2. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. - Bill Hicks

  4. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. - Dodie Smith

  5. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. - Sigmund Freud

More Quotes By Seneca
  1. Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

  2. Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.

  3. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  4. Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  5. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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