It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.