"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

Sacrifice, Gain, Order, Pain

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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

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"The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known."

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"A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both."

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"Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self."

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"Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference."

Christopher Paolini, American Author

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"Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore."

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

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"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."

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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

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