It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
His head was turned by too great success.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.