Lord Byron, Cain, 1821
• Description: the words of the character, Cain

To give birth to those Who can but suffer many years, and die, Methinks is merely propagating death, And multiplying murder.

— Lord Byron on Antinatalism

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• Description: the words of the character, Cain" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Lord Byron

About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.