IF thou to be a slave shouldst will,
Thou’lt get no pity, but fare ill;
And if a master thou wouldst be,
The world will view it angrily;
And if in statu quo thou stay,
That thou art but a fool, they’ll say.
1815.*
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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