Plato once more.---- ¹⁸ " With your favour Sir, 'Tis not always the part of Virtue and Bravery, to preserve either your own Life, or your Neighbours. He that's a Man in good earnest, must not be so mean as to whine for Life , and grasp intemperately at Old Age : Let him leave this point to Providence. The Women in the Nursery can tell him; that we must go, when our time is come. His Duty is "to consider, how he may make the most of his Life, and spend what there is to the best advantage."