The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
