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.]

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of read more

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.

He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
Our chastisement or recompense.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.