... fear is that the time we spend on earth is meaningless without achieving the difficult task of understanding it, and the source of this idea, Socrates. "The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates This is the quote that affirms my belief in questioning every aspect of life from authoritative figures to the origin of my own opinions. It also strikes fear deep ... reason to bring out an arrogant generalization, because no idea is always true. The subject must know that their intelligence is not at stake; the examination requires a separation of body (pride) from their soul (consci...

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... the household during high wartime male mortality. A great quote from Demosthenes, the noted Greek orator, summarizes the latitude of husbands and wives: "We have hetaerae for the sake of pleasure, prostitutes for daily care of the body, but wives to bear us legitimate children and trusted ... but tell her part of it, and leave the rest hidden." Telemachus, Penelope and Odysseus' son, states "my mother says I am the son of Odysseus, but I don't know. No one by himself can know his own seed." Agamemnon, the protagonist of the ... the meaning has been kept in the English language meaning ...

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