To perceive is to suffer.

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Man is by nature a political animal.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

—Albert Schweitzer

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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

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Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death.

—Lewis H. Lapham

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Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

—Marcus Antonius

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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

—Daniel Berrigan

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