The Importance of Virtue and Vice

Work is the sustenance of noble minds. There is no reason why, in accordance with that old vow of your parents, you should pick and choose what fortune you wish to receive. What need is there a vows? Make yourself happy through your own efforts. Your wise man will reject or choose in each case as it suits the occasion. He does not fear that which he rejects, nor does he admire that which he chooses. If only he has a stout and unconquerable soul. I forbid you to be cast down or depressed. It is not enough if you do not shrink from work. Ask for it. The very quality that endures toil and rouses itself to hard and