He that respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
—Longfellow.
Chilo, having had the question put to him, What is difficult? said: “To be silent about secrets; to make good use of one’s leisure; and to be able to submit to injustice.”
We should every day call ourselves to an account. What infirmity have I mastered to-day? What temptation have I resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
—Seneca.
Life is something, while the senses heed
The spirit’s call;
Life is nothing, when our grosser need
Engulfs it all.