Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.