 What is the moral of the parable of the six Vergios?
Nestir, the priest, was dressed out in the full ceremonial costume of office. And then, more loudly, "Men!" "It puts me in mind of the parable of the six Vergios." "Three, you will recall, were wise. Then he blessed them and took out His knife and lay open their sores. 'Secrecy makes for a long life,' as it says in the Jarcon ." I want you all to take it away from here with you and think about it, tonight, in the privacy of your cabins. "The arena in Koltah is the greatest arena in the whole system. "Well, the point I want to make is this: I just wanted to tell you that I know what a Festival should be, and the captain and I will do everything in our power to make our Casting Off as wonderful as any anywhere. While they were still cheering and stomping and otherwise expressing their enthusiasm and approval, Nestir walked off the speaker's platform and into the officer's corridor. He nodded curtly to the officers when he entered the mess hall, walked directly to his place at the head of the table, sat down and morosely began to work the cork out of his wine bottle with his teeth. When the third mate saw that his opinion on the wine was not immediately to be justified, he settled back in his chair with a little sigh of disapproval. The whole issue involves, as a core point, the principle of casta cum mae stotiti ." "But as I was saying, if it could be proven that the culstem fell due to no negligence on his part, either consciously or subconsciously, then the obvious conclusion would be that no stigma would be attached." "But it was a case of obvious intent ," continued Nestir, "and therefore constituted a clear out attempt to avoid his duty by hastening to his Reward." "That," he said to Nestir, "my dear Father, is the cardinal point of the whole game, y'know." After all, it's not only a question of how we go, but also a question of leaving only after having done our duty. Anticipation can be a joy, y'know: almost equal to the very Reward. The captain was not visibly cheered; he was still brooding about the sad absence of a sense of duty on the part of Nestir. "As I see it," Nestir said, "if the intent was the natural maternal instinct of the mother to release her child from its duty, then...."
 Secrecy makes for a long life.
 Secrecy makes for a long life.  Duty first, then Reward.  Fools live; the wise die.  Fools die; the wise live.