For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.