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Aeschylus

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And 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. — Aeschylus, from the chorus in Agamemnon; The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, transl. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 1984)

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Aeschylus

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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 despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ― Aeschylus, The Orestei. 458 BCE

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