"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales." - Aesop, Fables

"The only way to be happy is to love to suffer." - Woody Allen

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive." - W. Somerset Maugham

"I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep." - Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augutin de (1732-1799)