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Essay Archive - Flying Towards Fate
Flying Towards Fate
“It is never a sweet thing to draw out a long, long life in
cheerful hopes, and feed the spirit in the bright benignity of
happiness: but I shiver when I see you wasted with the ten
thousand pains, all because you did not tremble at the
name of Zeus: your mind was yours, not his, and at its bidding
you regarded mortal men too high, Prometheus.”
-Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound”
Man’s imaginative reach of his own destiny transcends his actual capabilities of himself. The goal he attains is never qui....
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