Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
I shall not altogether die.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.