When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
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.
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.