Quote of Publilius Syrus - Pain of mind is worse than...
Biography - Publilius Syrus:
Latin writer
*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Translation
(French, Latin, German)
Dolor animi gravior est quam corporis dolor.
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Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Quotes for: body
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Quotes for: pain
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
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