Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.