Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.