Czeslaw Milosz: "Learning"

                                      Learning
To believe you are magnificent.  And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent.  Enough labor for one human life.

This is one of the pieces (in its entirety) from Road-side Dog (1998) by Czeslaw Milosz.  When I come upon something as full of wisdom as this, I think:  "I wish that I had read this 20 (or 30 or 40) years ago."  But, there is always the necessary follow-up question:  would reading it then have changed anything?