Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
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.
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?