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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi read more
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes read more
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]