If you can find anything in this life better than doing what's right, being truthful, showing self-control, and being brave — anything better than a mind that's satisfied with acting according to reason and accepting what happens beyond your control — if you can find anything better than this, then go after it with everything you have. Whatever is truly best, enjoy it freely.
If thou shalt find anything in this mortal life better than righteousness, than truth, temperance, fortitude, and in general better than a mind contented both with those things which according to right and reason she doth, and in those, which without her will and knowledge happen unto thee by the providence; if I say, thou canst find out anything better than this, apply thyself unto it with thy whole heart, and that which is best wheresoever thou dost find it, enjoy freely.