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Indeed the remedies that await you are bitter when tasted but become all the more sweet when they are swallowed down deep. And how you would burn to hear what you say you are eager for, if only you knew where you were being led!”
“To where?” I said.
“To true happiness,” she replied, “the happiness your soul dreams of but which it can’t now see, since you are occupied with the mere shadow of things.”

“So don’t be surprised if we’re tossed about by storms on the sea of the life, when we ourselves have chosen to be displeasing to the wicked…Their cunning folly cannot climb the walls that keep us safe.”