Status Updates From On the Suffering of the World

“A vida do homem é um combate perpétuo, não só contra males abstratos, a miséria ou o aborrecimento, mas também contra os outros homens. Em toda parte encontra-se um adversário: a vida é uma guerra sem tréguas, e morre-se com as armas na mão.”

“With the animal, present suffering, even if repeated countless times, remains what it was the first time: it cannot sum itself up.”

“A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten.”