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man as ambrose bierce sees it
an animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ough to be. his chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole of habitable earth and canada
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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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