As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.