A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.