If your body can handle this kind of life, it would be shameful for your soul to give up first. Be careful that you don't stop being a philosopher and become just another Caesar, stained by the corruption of court life. This can happen if you're not careful.
If in this kind of life thy body be able to hold out, it is a shame that thy soul should faint first, and give over, take heed, lest of a philosopher thou become a mere Cæsar in time, and receive a new tincture from the court. For it may happen if thou dost not take heed.