I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.