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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Sophocles
Pain, Suffering, Remember
Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2003). “Theban Plays”, p.204, Hackett Publishing

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles
Inspirational, Honesty, Pain
"Oedipus Rex". Play by Sophocles, Line 1184,

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Sophocles
Pain, Fate, Evil
Sophocles, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2010). “The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays”, p.40, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles
Life, Pain, Adversity
David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles
Pain, Memories, Men
Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

Sophocles
Pain, Departed, Suffering

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

Sophocles
Pain, Sleep, Mind
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

Sophocles
Kings, Pain, Grief

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