Translations
Rather assist me, then, to gain this character than require me to do those things by which I may lose it.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
Rather assist me, then, to gain this character, than require me to do those things by which I may lose it.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
For this end then rather help me to be such a man, and do not ask me to do this by which I shall lose that character.George Long (1890)
Therefore help me rather to keep these qualities, and do not expect from me actions which will make me lose them.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)