Does anyone feel guilty for studying dead languages?

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What is ultimately valuable anyway? After you die, are people going to remember how comfortably you lived (i.e. money) or how zealously you pursued your interests and how knowledgable you were?
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae

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