Yes, to seek power that's vain and never granted and for it to suffer hardship and endless pain: this is to heave and strain to push uphill a boulder, that still from the very top rolls back and bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field. Lucretius
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle Be a hero in the strife. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow