I am doubting what to do.
Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]