If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

ὅταν δ᾿ ἄλυπος διὰ τέλους εἶναι θέλῃς,
ἢ δεῖ θεόν σ᾿ εἶναι τιν᾿ ἢ τάχα δὴ νεκρόν.
παρηγόρει δὲ τὰ κακὰ δι᾿ ἑτέρων κακῶν.

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