Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.

Check disease in its approach.