Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.