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“For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.”
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- Source:
- Consolation to Apollonius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 17c4fdfe3c909a5809d9063c9783f3c13ea84076c01c725e52ed7aeeaee87727
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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