"It is to serve you I come and leave my home among the dead
I come ... to turn you back from the road you go upon.
Hearken to my words.
Let me reveal to you my own story first,
let me show the tasks and sufferings that were mine,
and, at the last, the winning of deathless merit.
All this you can see in me now.
All this must be your suffering too,
the winning of a life to an end in glory,
out of this suffering."
--Sophocles, Philoctetes
