• Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) 1844-1924
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. suffering
2. courage
3. virtues

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. by : Anatole France

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