“The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.”

“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”

“War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.”

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm.”

“To suffer is to produce knowledge.”

“Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.”

“In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.”