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.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
It is difficult not to write satire.