Who slights revenge, yet does not fear, but scorn it;

Whose happiness in ev’ry fortune lives,

For that no fortune either takes or gives;

Who no unhandsome ways can bribe his fate,

Nay, out of prison marches through the gate;

Who, losing all his titles and his pelf,

Nay, all the world, can never lose himself;

This person shines indeed, and he that can

Be vertuous is the great immortal man.

15. Orinda to Lucasia