Better One Suffer Than A

To Tame The Proud, The Fetter'd Slave To Free, These Are Imperial Arts.

Either Be Wholly Slaves Or Wholly Free.

Want Is A Bitter And A Hateful Good, Because Its Virtues Are Not Understood; Yet Many Things, Impossible To Thought, Have Been By Need To Full Perfection Brought. The Daring Of The Soul Proceeds From Thence, Sharpness Of Wit, And Active Diligence; Prudence At Once, And Fortitude It Gives; And, If In Patience Taken, Mends Our Lives.

The Scum That Rises Upmost, When The Nation Boils.

Let Cheerfulness On Happy Fortune Wait.