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“That the makers of laws are the majority who are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and censures with a view to themselves and to their own interests.”
― Gorgias
― Gorgias
“The principle of caution, respecting the gravity of human suffering, weighs against procreating to the extent that it is unpredictable whether the person created will have a good life.”
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“the single worst moment of my life, was the moment I was born”
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“Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied “ To realise how much better it were not to be born.”
― Operette morali
― Operette morali
“What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.”
― Oedipus at Colonus
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.”
― Oedipus at Colonus
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