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The demigod said not a word, till at last, urged by the king, he gave a shrill laugh and broke out into these words: 'Oh, wretched ephemeral race, children of chance and misery, why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is to die soon.'

"It is apparent that it was a whole cluster of grave questions with which this book burdened itself.
Let us add the gravest question of all. What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality?"