Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.