Fortune sides with he who dares
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.