FastSaying
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Suffering
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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Suffering
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Murder
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Cheerfulness
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Wounds
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]
— Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Wounds