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The warning prophecies of these clairvoyants are useful in that they are to some degree what the oracle of Delphi was to Socrates. Those old Greeks had a wisdom all their own. They were not far wrong when they saw in unusual good fortune the forewarning of dread calamity; to them the gods did not desire mortals to remain happy too long.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 3 : Laws and Patterns of Experience > # 449