With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
The same night awaits us all.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
What has not wasting time impaired?
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?