Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.