Mortal is what belongs to mortals, and all things pass by us; and if not, yet we pass by them.
XXXII THE SUM OF KNOWLEDGE AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I was not, I came to be; I was, I am not: that is all; and who shall say more, will lie: I shall not be.
XXXIII NIHILISM GLYCON
All is laughter, and all is dust, and all is nothing; for out of unreason is all that is.
XXXIV NEPENTHE AUTHOR UNKNOWN
How was I born? whence am I? why did I come? to go again: how can I learn anything, knowing nothing? Being nothing, I was born; again I shall be as I was before; nothing and nothing-worth is the human race. But come, serve to me the joyous fountain of Bacchus; for this is the drug counter-charming ills.
XXXV THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE PALLADAS
We all are watched and fed for Death as a herd of swine butchered wantonly.