Yet none of these things strove for them ’gainst time:
One common death hath ta’en all mortal men.
See thou to this, and know thee who thou art.”
Symonds.
“The sum of all philosophy is this—
Thou art a man, than whom there breathes no creature
More liable to sudden rise and fall.”
“Of all bad things with which mankind are cursed,
Their own bad tempers surely are the worst.”
“The maxim ‘Know thyself’ does not suffice;