In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.