Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.