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.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

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

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

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