He could afford to be generous, since he didn't have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they… - Orson Scott Card

There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.

"'Waterloo was won,'" quoted Rackham, "'on the playing fields of Eton.'" "What the hell does that mean?" asked Carn Carby. "You never even went to Eton." "It was an analogy," said Rackham. "If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated."

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.