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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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.
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was
none with me: for I will tread read more
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was
none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample
them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my
garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam read more
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae
metuant.]
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's read more
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men read more
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
