History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake. Ulysses
“Those who have forgotten where the road leads.” “They are at odds with what is all around them”—the all-directing logos. And “they find alien what they meet with every day.” Book IV
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. Beware of Pity
Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good. Book IV
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