“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.”
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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
Original
Nulla res citius in odium venit quam dolor, qui recens consolatorem invenit et aliquos ad se adducit, inveteratus vero deridetur, nec inmerito.
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Source: Handle with Care
“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
Henry Rollins
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Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
