
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
Book III, Ch. 13
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays
Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
Vincit qui patitur.
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
Book III, Ch. 13
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays
“He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”
“He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.”
Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 1 epigram (p. 9; quoting Beilby Porteus)
“He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.”
“We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.”
Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis
luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.
VI, line 292.
Satires, Satire VI
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser.
Variant: He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.
“He who would love much has also much to suffer.”
"To My__" (December 1890)
“Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.”
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).