Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.