"That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures β because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer β because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage."
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Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943), part IV.
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