Individual suffering contributes to the happiness of all.
I have a small plot of land, but work can save me from three great evils: boredom, debauchery, and want.
True heroism is the ability to trample hardship underfoot and the courage to rebuild from the ashes.
If one deliberately avoids what they fear, they will find that they have merely taken a shortcut to meet it.
Epilogue Gems:
These are things as they should be; individual suffering contributes to the happiness of all; the more individuals suffer, the happier the collective becomes.
I have never seen a city that did not wish for the destruction of its neighbor, nor a household that did not hope to eradicate others. The weak bow to the strong while cursing them in secret; the strong treat them as lambs for slaughter.
They laugh and get angry at the same time. They are dissatisfied with everything, and they complain and grumble in a joking manner.
Man is born with only two paths: to earn a living amidst worry and turmoil, or to pass the days in boredom and ennui.
I have a small plot of land, but work can save me from three great evils: boredom, debauchery, and want.