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Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

W. Somerset Maugham
Men, Suffering, Want
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

W. Somerset Maugham
Suffering Of Others, Suffering, Resignation
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

W. Somerset Maugham
Past, Evil, Suffering

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham
Suffering, Tears, Gone
W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.64, The Floating Press

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