What is a loss?
If you had lost
Power, position , prosperity
Would you think of it
As a damage?
And then if you lost
Modesty, moderation and gentleness
Would you think the loss
As nothing?
And yet the first things
Are lost by some cause external
And independent of the will
And second by your own fault!
As to the first , neither to have them
Not to lose them is shameful
As to the second, not to have them
Or to lose them is shameful!
A matter of reproach and misfortune!
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