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Wealth, Self-sufficiency, Insolence, God-sent Infatuation, Ruin -- has echoes of Hebrew prophecy and anticipates the "Exercises"; yet even his stern drasanti pathein is calmed into the pathein mathos --
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Ton phronein brotous odosanta, to pathei mathos phenta kurios echein.
Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Thomas Parnell 1698
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The Greek Way, interpreted the trilogy's central ethical concept -- that learning comes by suffering (in Greek, the words "learning" and "suffering" rhyme, mathos / pathos) -- in the most optimistic terms: suffering can teach us not only how to suffer but how to prevent more suffering, through love, wisdom, justice and compassion.
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The Greek Way, interpreted the trilogy's central ethical concept -- that learning comes by suffering (in Greek, the words "learning" and "suffering" rhyme, mathos / pathos) -- in the most optimistic terms: suffering can teach us not only how to suffer but how to prevent more suffering, through love, wisdom, justice and compassion.
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The Greek Way, interpreted the trilogy's central ethical concept -- that learning comes by suffering (in Greek, the words "learning" and "suffering" rhyme, mathos / pathos) -- in the most optimistic terms: suffering can teach us not only how to suffer but how to prevent more suffering, through love, wisdom, justice and compassion.
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word mathos
The law of Pathei Mathos: wisdom comes alone through suffering.
February 7, 2007