“Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to finer melody in you;
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.”

—  Will Durant

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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