[lbo-talk] The sources of suffering (Grow up!) ( Was Re: Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward)

[Shane Mage]

I wrote:


>  >  "Call no man happy until he is dead," says Aristotle...
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>Ah, Solon, Solon...
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>>...and he doesn't mean it's better not to be born.
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>but Oedipos (according to Sophokles) does.
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My mistake.  The line "Best is never to be born" is spoken by

                        Sophokles's Chorus, not by Oedipos.