To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn

As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied “ To realise how much better it were not to be born.

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied: " To realise how much better it were not to be born.