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.
JuvenalYes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
JuvenalNature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
Juvenal