Gold will be slave or master.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.