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You see these pictures and you imagine they were a cute loving family

They are a perfect family (الله لا يچذبني)

لا تحلفين صدكتج

Prometheus creating man in clay,
By Constantin Hansen

According to Greek legends, the gods ordered Prometheus, a titan, to create humans out of clay. While his brother, Epimetheus, created all the animals.

Orestes being pursued by the Furies,
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau

It's from an ancient Greek tragedy, following Agamemnon's son, Orestes, after the events of the Illiad.

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Human life is mysterious that way. Human beings aren't strong enough to live and die only for themselves. That's why we have ideals, we can only act for the sake of something. We soon tire of living only for ourselves. It necessarily follows that we also need to die for something. That something used to be called a "noble cause." To die for a noble cause was thought the most glorious, heroic, or honorable way to die. But there are no noble causes today. Democratic governments obviously have no need for noble causes. Yet if one cannot find a value that transcends oneself, life itself, in a spiritual sense, is rendered meaningless.