#pathei mathos

The goddess, Judgement, favours someone learning from adversity.
But I shall hear of what will be, after it comes into being: Before then, I leave it, otherwise, it is the same as a premature grieving.
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, 250-254

..the culture of ἀρετή is, in essence, the education of discovering and knowing, intellectually and personally, that noble balance between our natural human tendency to commit ὕβρις - to go beyond the respectful, noble, limits of behaviour - and the necessity of learning the hard way, from πάθει μάθος, from direct personal experience. Δίκα is this balance; a balance manifest in us - or which can be manifest in us - through thoughtful reasoning, that is, by a well-balanced, fair, noble, personal judgement.

David Myatt