the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood. - Mary Renault

That is the life of the gods, who only seem to die like the sun at his setting. But do not ride too fast across the sky and leave us all in darkness.

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is
purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one
will ever make a tragedy-and that is as well, for one could not bear it-whose grief is that the principals
never met.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.