楽らくは苦くの種たね、苦くは楽らくの種たね

expression

there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain

A proverb expressing the idea that pleasure and pain are intertwined; one often leads to the other.

• 「楽らくは苦くの種たね、苦くは楽らくの種たね」というように、楽たのしいことの後あとには苦く労ろうが待まっていることもある。

  As the saying goes, 'there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain,' sometimes hardship awaits after enjoyable times.