As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.