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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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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, ...more

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain

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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

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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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Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain