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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Solitude
Joseph Addison

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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Night
Djuna Barnes

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Mind
E. M. Cioran

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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Torture
E. M. Cioran

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Trust
Frank Crane

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Martyrdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Riches
Dick Gregory

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Marriage
Washington Irving

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Jefferson

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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Vengeance
Arthur Schopenhauer

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I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
Self-control
Count Leo Tolstoy

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No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
Revenge
Source Unknown

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Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.
Solitude
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun