Anyone can kill. But it is not everybody who can forgive, or who can be just, as I know you are. - Femi Osofisan

Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not.

Even in misfortune, which levels everyone, the potions are unequal: we dare not tell you what we believe will becoming to us. [

My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend.