"Our susceptibility to pain is wellnigh infinite; but that to pleasure has narrow limits."

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EthicsPhilosophyPhilosophical pessimism
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Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. E. F. J. Payne, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Volume II (2001), chapter XII - Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Suffering of the World