So what if you've given up on this fight for happiness and good fortune? No one stops you from starting the fight again. You don't have to wait four years for the next Olympics. As soon as you recover your strength and bring back your passion, you can start fighting again. If you give up again, you can start again after that. Once you win, it's like you never gave up at all. Just don't make giving up a habit. Don't start enjoying it. Don't be like a bad athlete who gets beaten at every competition and runs around defeated like escaped fighting birds.
Well then, even if we have renounced the contest in this matter (for good fortune and happiness), no man hinders us from renewing the combat again, and we are not compelled to wait for another four years that the games at Olympia may come again; but as soon as you have recovered and restored yourself, and employ the same zeal, you may renew the combat again; and if again you renounce it, you may again renew it; and if you once gain the victory, you are like him who has never renounced the combat. Only do not through a habit of doing the same thing (renouncing the combat), begin to do it with pleasure, and then like a bad athlete go about after being conquered in all the circuit of the games like quails who have run away.