Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.