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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus read more
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]
Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?
Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
