When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
Be smart, drink your wine.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.