The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment... is inflicted by love as much as by justice.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.