God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our de… - Aeschylus

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

He who learns must suffer' and that 'against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace' of enduring pain...

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 what to know
Except pain.
And this is how the gods declare their love.
Truth comes with pain.

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.

For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?