Only a child sees things with perfect clarity,
because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them,
each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other,
always using friendly and sincere words."
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift;
they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long,
but a good memory, which nature has given to us,
causes things long past to seem present.