But if you try to avoid what you cannot control — sickness, poverty, death — you will inflict useless mental suffering upon yourself.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

We have to take care of the cure that will make the problem worse no matter what.

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick
against the pricks, the more you suffer.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.

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