In Lazy Apathy Let Stoics Boast Their Virtue Fix'd

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 101

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