Francois Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel (№ 77731)

My Lord, if you are as strong of mind as by nature great growth, you should feel compassion to me, for nature has created all of us equal, but the fate of some uplifted, others humiliated. However, virtue is always in the paddock, and people virtuous neglected: it is only exhaling the last breath, man is good.