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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus
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Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
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Wisdom cometh by suffering.
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For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.
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Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
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Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
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Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
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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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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
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Ask the gods nothing excessive.
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