He who would love much has also much to suffer.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to tremendous difficulties.

From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it — that is great, that belongs to greatness.

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

Those who act will suffer, suffer into truth

Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.