Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Better to accept whatever happens.