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Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae. HOR., Car. iii. 3, 7. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Man, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes.
But the same man may, at various periods of his life, and on various days at the same period, be scrupulous and unscrupulous, impractical and practical, as the circumstances of the occasion may affect him. At one moment the rule of simple honesty will prevail with him. "Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinæ."
"Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinæ." The Prometheus Vinctus is the Inferno of Dante dramatised; but it is fraught with a nobler moral. It does not portray the sufferings of sin for past guilt; it exhibits the heroism of virtue under present injustice.
And the commonwealth, whose constitution can be no stranger to any of those virtues which are to be acquired in human life, grows familiar with death ere she dies. If the hand of God be upon her for her transgressions, she shall mourn for her sins, and lie in the dust for her iniquities, without losing her manhood. "'Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidam ferient ruinoe."
'Tis cowardice, not virtue, to lie squat in a furrow, under a tomb, to evade the blows of fortune; virtue never stops nor goes out of her path, for the greatest storm that blows: "Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae."
Justum et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster Dux inquieti turbidus Hadriae, Nec fulminantis magna manus Jovis: Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae. Hor., Lib. III. Carm. The 10th of August, 1792, was one of the most memorable days of the French Revolution.
They fancied that he would not return to the city, or venture his head a second time within the lion's jaws. But they reckoned without their man, Basterga with all his faults was brave; and he had failed in too many schemes to resign this one lightly. "Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinæ," he murmured; and he had ventured, he had passed the gates, he was here.
Let our attitude be such that we should not quake even if the world fell in ruins about us: Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinae. Our whole life itself let alone its blessings would not be worth such a cowardly trembling and shrinking of the heart. Therefore, let us face life courageously and show a firm front to every ill:
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