They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.