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We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
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What life is there, what delight, without golden Aphrodite?
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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Mimnermus
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670 BC
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Mimnermus was a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia, who flourished about 630-600 BC.
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