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Alexander Pope Quotes about Suffering

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Homerus, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Odyssey”, p.126