One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?