Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.