Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.