16. No one remembers the wise, and no one remembers fools. In days to come, we will all be forgotten. We must all die — wise and foolish alike.
17. So life came to mean nothing to me, because everything in it had brought me nothing but trouble. It had all been useless; I had been chasing the wind.
18. Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,