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		<title>Hugo, Victor -- Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli [tr. Wraxall (1862)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.</p>
<p><em>[Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l&#8217;histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d&#8217;arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l&#8217;Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l&#8217;aurore.]</em></p>
<br><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802-1885) French writer<br>Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli [tr. Wraxall (1862)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Victor_Hugo_Les_miserables/CohIAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22sinister%20fragment%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=hugo+%22mis%C3%A8re+est+le+v%C3%AAtement%22&pg=PA178&printsec=frontcover">Source (French)</a>). Daeli was the publisher of the Italian translation of <em>Les Misérables</em>.


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		<title>Euripides -- Medea [Μήδεια], l.  78ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NURSE: We’re ruined, then, if we must add a new Evil to the old one we’ve hardly saved ourselves from. [ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: Ἀπωλόμεσθ᾽ ἄρ᾽, εἰ κακὸν προσοίσομεν νέον παλαιῷ, πρὶν τόδ᾽ ἐξηντληκέναι.] Reacting to the news that King Creon is going to banish Medea and her sons, on top of the existing problem of Medea&#8217;s broken [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">NURSE: We’re ruined, then, if we must add a new<br />
Evil to the old one we’ve hardly saved ourselves from.</p>
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<p class="hangingindent">[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: Ἀπωλόμεσθ᾽ ἄρ᾽, εἰ κακὸν προσοίσομεν<br />
νέον παλαιῷ, πρὶν τόδ᾽ ἐξηντληκέναι.]</p>
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<br><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Medea</i> [Μήδεια], l.  78ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/euripides-medea-podlecki_20220818/page/17/mode/2up?q=%22We%E2%80%99re+ruined%2C+then%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Reacting to the news that King Creon is going to banish Medea and her sons, on top of the existing problem of Medea's broken marriage and fraying sanity. (Turns out, she's not wrong.)<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0113%3Acard%3D49#:~:text=%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%89%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B8%E1%BE%BD%20%E1%BC%84%CF%81%E1%BE%BD%2C%20%CE%B5%E1%BC%B0%20%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BA%E1%BD%B8%CE%BD%20%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%0A%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%E1%BF%B7%20%2C%20%CF%80%CF%81%E1%BD%B6%CE%BD%20%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%B4%E1%BE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CE%BE%CE%B7%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9.">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations: <br><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">We shall be plung'd <br>
In utter ruin, if to our old woes <br>
Yet unexhausted, any fresh we add.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/nineteentragedi01wodhgoog/page/252/mode/2up?q=%22We+shall+be+plung%27d%22">Wodhull</a> (1782)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Rain would follow, to the former ill<br>
If this were added e'er the first subsides.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bacch%C3%A6_Ion_Alcestis_Medea_Hippolytu/L8tCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22would%20follow%22">Potter</a> (1814)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We are undone then if to the first ill,<br>
Ere yet it be drained dry, we add a new.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Medea_(Webster_1868)#:~:text=We%20are%20undone%20then%20if%20to%20the%20first%20ill%2C%0AEre%20yet%20it%20be%20drained%20dry%2C%20we%20add%20a%20new.">Webster</a> (1868)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Undone, it seems, are we, if to old woes fresh ones we add, ere we have drained the former to the dregs.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Plays_of_Euripides_(Coleridge)/Medea#:~:text=Undone%2C%20it%20seems%2C%20are%20we%2C%20if%20to%20old%20woes%20fresh%20ones%20we%20add%2C%20ere%20we%20have%20drained%20the%20former%20to%20the%20dregs.">Coleridge</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We perish then, if to the old we shall add a new ill, before the former be exhausted.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15081/pg15081-images.html#MEDEA:~:text=We%20perish%20then%2C%20if%20to%20the%20old%20we%20shall%20add%20a%20new%20ill%2C%20before%20the%20former%20be%20exhausted.">Buckley</a> (1892)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We are undone then, if we add fresh ill<br>
To old, ere lightened be our ship of this.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Euripides_(Way)/Medea#:~:text=We%20are%20undone%20then%2C%20if%20we%20add%20fresh%20ill%0ATo%20old%2C%20ere%20lightened%20be%20our%20ship%20of%20this.">Way</a> (Loeb) (1894)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But this is ruin! New waves breaking in<br>
To wreck us, ere we are righted from the old!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35451/pg35451-images.html#:~:text=But%20this%20is%20ruin!%20New%20waves%20breaking%20in%0ATo%20wreck%20us%2C%20ere%20we%20are%20righted%20from%20the%20old!">Murray</a> (1906)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It’s black indeed for us, when we add new to old<br>
Sorrows before even the present sky has cleared.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/euripides-medea-warner.ocr/page/60/mode/2up?q=%22It%E2%80%99s+black+indeed%22">Warner</a> (1944)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Then we're lost, if we must add new trouble<br>
To old, before we're rid of what we had already.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/medeaotherplays0000euri/page/18/mode/2up?q=%22then+we%27re+lost%22">Vellacott</a> (1963)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We are done for, it seems, if we add this new trouble to our old ones before we've weathered those.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0114%3Acard%3D49#:~:text=We%20are%20done%20for%2C%20it%20seems%2C%20if%20we%20add%20this%20new%20trouble%20to%20our%20old%20ones%20before%20we%27ve%20weathered%20those">Kovacs</a> (1994)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>That’s scuppered us, then, if a new wave is going to crash over us before we’ve managed to bale out the old one!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/medeaotherplays0000euri_d3q9/page/52/mode/2up?q=scuppered">Davie</a> (1996)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Well then, we are finished, old man!<br>
We are destroyed!  New troubles arrive even before the old ones have gone!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://bacchicstage.wpcomstaging.com/euripides/medea/#:~:text=Well%20then%2C%20we%20are%20finished%2C%20old%20man!%0AWe%20are%20destroyed!%C2%A0%20New%20troubles%20arrive%20even%20before%20the%20old%20ones%20have%20gone!">Theodoridis</a> (2004)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It’s all over for us, if we take on new troubles <br>
on top of the old, before they have been drained out. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/greek/euripides-medea/#:~:text=It%E2%80%99s%20all%20over%20for%20us%2C%20if%20we%20take%20on%20new%20troubles%C2%A0%0Aon%20top%20of%20the%20old%2C%20before%20they%20have%20been%20drained%20out.%C2%A0">Luschnig</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If we must add these brand-new troubles<br>
to our old ones, before we’ve dealt with them,<br>
then we’re finished.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/euripides/medeahtml.html#:~:text=If%20we%20must%20add%20these%20brand%2Dnew%20troubles%0Ato%20our%20old%20ones%2C%20before%20we%E2%80%99ve%20dealt%20with%20them%2C%0Athen%20we%E2%80%99re%20finished.">Johnston</a> (2008)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then we are lost, if we must add this new evil<br>
before we've drained the old one to the dregs.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Euripides_Medea/kNBUEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22nurse%20then%20we%20are%22">Ewans</a> (2022)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>That's it, we're doomed. New troubles are poured in our cup<br>
Faster than we can drink the old ones to the dregs.<br>
[tr. Hill (2025)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then we are ruined, if we add new trouble <i>[kakon]</i> to old, before we have bailed out the latter.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://chs.harvard.edu/primary-source/euripides-medea/#:~:text=Then%20we%20are%20ruined%2C%20if%20we%20add%20new%20trouble%20%5Bkakon%5D%20to%20old%2C%20before%20we%20have%20bailed%20out%20the%20latter.">Coleridge / Ceragioli / Nagy / Hour25</a>]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Huxley, Aldous -- &#8220;Knowledge and Understanding,&#8221; Vedanta and the West (May-Jun 1956)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism, and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. Revision of a 1955 lecture given at the Vedanta Society of Southern California; this phrase, however, does not occur [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism, and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.</p>
<br><b>Aldous Huxley</b> (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic<br>&#8220;Knowledge and Understanding,&#8221; <i>Vedanta and the West</i> (May-Jun 1956) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://vedanta.org/2002/monthly-readings/knowledge-and-understanding-part-1/#:~:text=For%20at%20least%20two%20thirds%20of%20our%20miseries%20spring%20from%20human%20stupidity%2C%20human%20malice%2C%20and%20those%20great%20motivators%20and%20justifiers%20of%20malice%20and%20stupidity%2C%20idealism%2C%20dogmatism%2C%20and%20proselytizing%20zeal%20on%20behalf%20of%20religious%20or%20political%20idols." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Revision of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxI4QWJYP-E">a 1955 lecture</a> given at the Vedanta Society of Southern California; this phrase, however, does not occur in it (the surrounding text is found around the 10:00 mark). Reprinted in <i>Adonis and the Alphabet, and Other Essays</i> (in the US <i>Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Other Essays</i>) (1956).						</span>
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