Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.