When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: "Brecht, amputate a leg!", I would reply, "Certainly, Your Excellency!", and cut off the leg. If I was told, "Perform a trepanning!" I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.