Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.