Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it’s
the courage to continue that counts,’ extolled Sir Winston Churchill.
Euripides said: ‘I would rather die on my feet than
live on my knees.’
My family coat of arms embraces the Machiavelli dictum:
“Virtu et Fortuna”.
Yet, for they who strive, be it from helot to bourgeois, or those born to the Manor (where bequeathments from they who before them strived, are often squandered), debt is a companion for life – an albatross around one’s neck.
