I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.