While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
Words challenge eternity.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.