But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.