Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.