Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
The good befriend themselves.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!