"Having done this, and been seen by the assembly, they made a most excellent end of their lives, and the god showed by these men how that it was better for a man to die than to live." penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman
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They pulled their mother five and forty furlongs in a carriage, in which the god showed by these men that it is better never to have been born than to have to pull your fat ass mom in a horse carriage as if they were no more than beasts of burden
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It's the punchline to the story that matters; see Silenus for the same wisdom, but in a different key
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Silenus is my favorite god. He taught Dionysus how to party.