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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.