
- There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings
- Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
- Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already
- Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam.” Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
- The prisoner who had lost faith in the future – his future – was doomed
- the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.
- Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
- there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
- The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words.
- no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.
