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苦くは楽らくの種たね
Meanings
Expression
Proverb
1. one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
Kanji used
苦
suffering
楽
comfort
種
seed
Composed of
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain