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“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“...count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
“It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it”
― Ajax
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it”
― Ajax
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