Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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