Even the old should learn.
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.