The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.