A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.