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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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2009

  • 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.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2009

  • 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.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2009

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  • The law of Pathei Mathos: wisdom comes alone through suffering.

    February 7, 2007