Aeschylus Quotes About Pain
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
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The reward of pain is experience.
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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
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The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
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