To endure pain requires more courage than death. The most immoral of all immoral things is to do something you are not competent for. Marching is war. In my dictionary, there is no "impossible..." - Napoleon When a man calmly bears one major misfortune after another, the beauty of his soul shines through. This is not because he has no feelings about it, but because He is a person with a noble and heroic character - Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" A noble heart should bear disaster rather than avoid it... Good luck is enviable, but defeating bad luck makes people enviable. People admire, this is Seneca's famous saying - Bacon