Lovely and honorable is to die for one’s country. Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. Never despair. No one is content with his own lot. It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. | 
