Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
HomerHe knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HomerThe proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
HomerRage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.
Homer