Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered. [ Bovee ]

No one knows himself until he has suffered. [ A. de Musset ]

Who ever suffered for not speaking ill of others? [ Proverb ]

One writes well only of what he has seen or suffered. [ De Goncourt ]

How much one must have suffered to be weary even of hope! [ Pauline ]

One is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm before. [ Publius Syrus ]

One knows the value of pleasure only after he has suffered pain. [ Fontanelle ]

They complain wrongfully of Neptune, that twice suffered shipwreck. [ Proverb ]

Affection is a coal that must be cooled: Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. [ Emerson ]

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. [ Johnson ]

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. [ Johnson ]

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Before wondering at the degradation of a soul, one should know what blows it has received, and what it has suffered from its own grandeur. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasurable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. [ Talfourd ]

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. [ Macaulay ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]