Believe me, who have made the experiment, that compared with this task, the task of inviolable secrecy, all others are easy.

To be dumb will not suffice; never to know any remission in your zeal or your watchfulness will not suffice.

If the sagacity of others detect your occupations, however strenuously you may labour for concealment, your doom is ratified, as well as that of the wretch whose evil destiny led him to pursue you.
Yet if your fidelity fail not, great will be your recompence.

For all your toils and self-devotion, ample will be the retribution.

Hitherto you have been wrapt in darkness and storm; then will you be exalted to a pure and unruffled element.