Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustæ miseræque brevissima vitæ Portio; dum bibimus dum serta unguenta puellas

Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

j. JUVENAL-Satiræ. IX. 127.

Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus: hoc est vivere bis, vitâ posse priore frui.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Natura vero nihil hominibus brevitate vitæ præstitit melius.

Nature has given to man nothing of more value than shortness of life.

0. PLINY the Elder-Historia Naturalis. VII. 5. 1. 3.

Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti æterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.

No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life. p. SALLUST-Jugurtha. LXXXV.

SENECA-Epistolæ Ad Lucilium. LXI.