Re: man as ambrose bierce sees it
the signature isn't mine either, but since it's a myth it's impossible to attribute originally it to any specific author. plutarch maybe? i was in skopje and i think they had a statue of plutarch there.
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"Oh, wretched race of a day, children of chance and misery, why do ye compel me to say to you what it were most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is for ever beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. The second best for you, however, is soon to die". Silenus, tutor to Dionysos, speaking to King Midas.
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