long for and fear. Events like piles of sand, drift upon drift—
each one soon hidden by the next.
- “ ‘If his mind is filled with nobility, with a grasp of all
time, all existence, do you think our human life will mean
much to him at all?’
“ ‘How could it?’ he said.“ ‘Or death be very frightening?’“ ‘Not in the least.’ ”- “Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds.”
- Disgraceful: that the mind should control the face, should
be able to shape and mold it as it pleases, but not shape and
mold itself. - “And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the
world would notice!” - “May you bring joy to us and those on high.”
- “To harvest life like standing stalks of grain Grown and
cut down in turn.” - “If I and my two children cannot move the gods The gods
must have their reasons.”