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“In brief space mortals' delight is exalted, and thus again it drops to the ground, shaken by a backward doom. We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The dream of a shadow is man, no more. But when the brightness comes, and God gives it, there is a shining of light on men, and their life is sweet." -- Pindar, Pythian VIII.92-97 (trans. Richmond Lattimore)” — Pindar
In brief space mortals' delight is exalted, and thus again it drops to the ground, shaken by a backward doom. We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The dream of a shadow is man, no more. But when the brightness comes, and God gives it, there is a shining of light on men, and their life is sweet." -- Pindar, Pythian VIII.92-97 (trans. Richmond Lattimore)