A man loses a lot of things
and sometimes finds them again,
but it’s my duty to inform you,
and you’ll do well to remember it,
if once your sense of shame gets lost
it will never again be found.


José Hernández,(La Vuelta de Martín Fierro, part 2 of Martín Fierro [1879], canto 32; bilingual ed., trans. C. E. Ward [1967], 493) as found in Claudio D. Zivic, “After All We Can Do,” Ensign, Nov 2007, 98–99