| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hercules' Choice | Literature | Immortality the reward of toil in preference to pleasure. Xenophon tells us when Hercules was a youth he was accosted by two women - Virtue and Pleasure - and asked to choose between them. Pleasure promised him all carnal delights, but Virtue promised immortality. Hercules gave his hand to the latter, and, after a life of toil, was received amongst the gods. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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