“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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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.
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.”
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter I.

“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love