“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 250–251 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

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Δίκα δὲ τοῖς μὲν παθοῦ- σιν μαθεῖν ἐπιῤῥέπει· τὸ μέλλον.

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