“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
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Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, più senta il bene, e così la doglienza.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
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Dante Alighieri 105
Italian poet 1265–1321Related quotes
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 401.
Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo,
y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente,
pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,
ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.
“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
Ibid., p. 111
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ah, não há saudades mais dolorosas do que as das coisas que nunca foram!