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"Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest."
"Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it."
"The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it."
"And woe succeeds woe."
"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."
"Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many."
"To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe."
