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    “For the misfortunes that befall us and the illnesses that harass us make even a short life seem long. And so because life is a hardship, death proves to be a human being's most welcome escape, and the god, who gives us merely a taste of sweetness in life, is revealed to be a jealous deity.”
    ― Artabanos
    tags: achmaenid, artabanos, empire, herodotus, persia, persian, the-histories, xerxes
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    “In peace sons bury fathers; in war fathers bury sons.”
    ― Croesus of Lydia
    tags: apollo, croesus, cyrus, delphi, lydia, the-histories
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “O Time thy pyramids.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
    tags: existence, existential, philosophy, science-fiction
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