“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.”
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“Just as we suffer from excess in all things, so we suffer from excess in literature; thus we learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.”
Quemadmodum omnium rerum, sic litterarum quoque intemperantia laboramus: non vitae sed scholae discimus.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Alternate translation: Not for life, but for school do we learn. (translator unknown)
Alternate translation: We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life. (translator unknown).
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CVI: On the corporeality of virtue, Line 12
“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.”
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter I.
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 123
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
