Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.