We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.