Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel ; That man lives twice that lives the first life well

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

A master of a house, as I have read, must be the first man up and the last in bed

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.