Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?