Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
What can they suffer that do not fear to die?
When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.
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