21 could have perfectly heard them (if we have not yet heard them, or at least the idea they enclose) in some of the thousands of seminars and discussions carried out in our days. 79. But the Preacher does not end there. He continues, with wisdom and knowledge of human nature: "Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun." 69 80. And the Preacher adds that everything has its time: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak"(...). 70 81. My time as Full Judge of this Court is expiring. Everything has its time, a time to arrive and a time to leave. Regarding the surviving victims of the case of the Castro Castro Prison, they had their time of prolonged suffering, their time to suffer due to lack of punishment, but now they have their time for justice. After the darkness there is light, in the chiaoscuro of the fragile human existence. For me, the sad anticipated saudade of the departure from the Court is in part compensated by the light that goes on to illuminate the victims’ paths, with the establishment of truth and justice. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Pablo Saavedra-Alessandri Secretary . Chapter 4, verses 1-3. . Chapter 3, verses 1-8. 69 70