Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it
there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.
Οὐ μὲν γάρ τί πού ἐστιν ὀϊζυρώτερον ἀνδρὸς
πάντων, ὅσσά τε γαῖαν ἔπι πνείει τε καὶ ἕρπει.
πάντων, ὅσσά τε γαῖαν ἔπι πνείει τε καὶ ἕρπει.
Original text (Ancient Greek)
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Robert Fagles's translation | There is nothing alive more agonized than man
of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.