Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
To know all things is not permitted.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.