A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing? And the sage answered him, Precisely for that reasonbecause it does not avail.
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Miguel de Unamuno was a 19th-century Spanish writer, philosopher and academic. Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912), and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which The Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel". Read more on Wikipedia →