Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
Friendship's the wine of life.