101. You think that saying of the Greek school--Pindar's summary of it, "[Greek: ti de tis; ti d'ou tis];"[15]--a sorrowful and degrading lesson. See at least, then, that you reach the level of such degradation. See that your lives be in nothing worse than a boy's climbing for his entangled kite. It will be well for you if you join not with those who instead of kites fly falcons; who instead of obeying the last words of the great Cloud-Shepherd--to feed his sheep, live the lives--how much less than vanity!--of the war-wolf and the gier-eagle. Or, do you think it a dishonor to man to say to him that Death is but only Rest? See that when it draws near to you, you may look to it, at least for sweetness of Rest; and that you recognize the Lord of Death coming to you as a Shepherd gathering you into his Fold for the night. [Footnote 15: Pyth. viii. 95. (135.)]