Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life