Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Pain
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A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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