Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.