{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/8726/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"edition":{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/editions/1/?format=json","descriptions":[{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/424/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"created_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033306Z","updated_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033317Z","description":"Paton edition"}],"edition_type":0,"metadata":{},"created_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z","updated_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z"},"unique_id":99999093,"created_at":"2021-07-22T15:11:11.192782Z","updated_at":"2021-07-22T15:11:11.192789Z","validation":0,"status":1,"text":"What path of life should one pursue ? In the\r\nmarket-place are broils and business difficulties, and at\r\nhome are anxieties ; in the country there is too much\r\nlabour, and at sea there is fear. In a foreign land\r\nthere is apprehension if you possess anything, and if\r\nyou are ill off, life is a burden. You are married ?\r\nYou won't be without cares. You are unmarried ?\r\nYou live a still more lonely life. Children are a\r\ntrouble, and a childless life is a crippled one. Youth\r\nis foolish, and old age again is feeble. There is then,\r\nit seems, a choice between two things, either not to\r\nbe born or to die at once on being born.","comments":[],"alignments":[],"passages":["https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:9.359/?format=json"]}