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Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

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Jeremy Bentham

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity to pain, the only good; pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning.

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John Henry Newman

Make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in your passage through life. By the blessing of God this will prepare you for it; it will make you thoughtful and resigned without interfering with your cheerfulness.

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John Cage, fully John Milton Cage, Jr.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of “culture.”

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John Milton

Sense of pleasure we may well spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, but pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.

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Kahlil Gibran

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

Love |

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Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe

The toddler is allowed to regulate his own exploratory behavior. What occurs as a result of this entire mechanism is that nature’s imperative to explore the world at large is overwhelmed by the greater imperative to avoid the pain of a broken relationship with the life-giving caregiver. What will be developed in the child is a capacity for deception as he tries to maintain some vestige of integrity while outwardly appearing to conform. Living a lie to survive a lying culture, the child forgets the truth of who he really is.

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Joseph Joubert

The pain of a dispute greatly outweighs its uses.

Dispute | Pain |

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Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Pain | Understanding |

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Kahlil Gibran

Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Pain | Self |

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Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.

Object | Peace | War |

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M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck

Discipline is the tool required to solve life's problems. What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems directly? Delaying gratification, accepting responsibility, dedication to truth, and balance.