The goal of all life is death
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
History is just new people making old mistakes.
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?