“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Translation of Virgil's Aeneid (2007), Book I, lines 198–199 and 202–203

Original: Chi soffre o ha sofferto ha un cuore diverso. Un cuore capace di aiutare ed amare.
Source: prevale.net

"A Protest about the Condition of the Bohemians," p. 5
Wu Ming Presents Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes

Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
Variant translation: It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
The Histories

Source: First Comes Marriage

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, p. 175

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.