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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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