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I will not grieve over the great number of those who perish; for it is they who are now like a mist, and are similar to a flame and smoke—they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are extinguished.”
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I replied and said, “O earth, what have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of the dust like the other created things?
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For it would have been better if the dust itself had not been born, so that the mind might not have been made from it.
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But now the mind grows with us, and therefore we are tormented, because we perish and we know it.
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Let the human race lament, but let the wild animals of the field be glad; let all who have been born lament, but let the cattle and the flocks rejoice.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.