The Proseuché: What the Gods Give

What the world gives, the world can take away.

What the Gods give, the Gods can take away.

But that which the Gods offer for a man

to become as a gift to himself,

by the acquisition of virtue,

cannot be taken away but by the man,

and, in this, the Gods might find

that I have achieved the heights in self

they intended for their creation.

Socrates, The Proseuche 55e