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21 " We should know what is true before we break our rage. "
― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
22 " that we must suffer, suffer into truth.We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heartthe pain of pain remembered comes againand we resist, but ripeness comes as well.From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-benchthere comes a violent love. "
23 " that we must suffer, suffer into truth.We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heartthe pain of pain remembered comes againand we resist. "
24 " Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny. "
25 " [. . .] we suffer and we learn.And we will know the future when it comes.Greet it too early, weep too soon.It all comes clear in the light of day. "
26 " [. . .] radiant dreams are passing in the night,the memories throb with sorrow, joy with pain . . .it is pain to dream and see desiresslip through the arms,a vision lost for everwinging down the moving drifts of sleep. "
27 " Cry Sorrow, sorrow--yet let good prevail. "
28 " Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another. "
29 " Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit. "
30 " Let there be less suffering . . .give us the sense to live on what we need. "
31 " Look - can't you see? The more you kickagainst the pricks, the more you suffer. "
32 " CLYTEMNESTRA. Nay, peace, O best-belovèd! Peace! And let us work no evil more. Surely the reaping of the past is a full harvest, and not good, And wounds enough are everywhere.—Let us not stain ourselves with blood. "
33 " Man must suffer to be wise.Head-winds heavy with past iolStray his course and cooud his heart;Sorrow takes the blind soul's part--Man grows wise against his will.For powers who rule from thrones aboveBy ruthlessness commend their love. "
34 " And when he had put on the yoke-strap of compulsion, his spirit's wind veering to an impious blast, impure, unholy, from that moment his mind changed to a temper of utter ruthlessness. For mortals are made reckless by the evil counsels of merciless Infatuation, beginner of disaster. "
35 " ღმერთებსა ვვედრი, ტანჯვას ჩემსა დასდონ სამანი "
36 " Conozco las estrellas por memorias, los ejércitos de la noche, y hay en la delantera los que nos traen la nieve o los cultivos de verano, nos traen todo lo que tenemos (...) los conozco cuando se levantan y cuando caen... y ahora veo la luz, la señal del fuego saliendo (...). Por lo tanto, ella ordena, llana de grandes esperanzas. "
37 " უცხო ტალღებად ეკეცებოდა ზაფრანისფერი კაბის ტალღები,დგა გარინდებით, ვითარცა ხატი და მკვლელთა მისთა ისრებს სტყორცნიდა თვალებიდან, ვედრების ნიშნად. "
38 " βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις, τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων. "
39 " He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding "
40 " We’re not gods; why then expect to enjoy a lifetime of unbroken happiness? "