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

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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