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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Sophocles
Next, Birth, Reckoning

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Sophocles
Gratitude, Giving, Birth

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sophocles
Proud, Birth, Dies
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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